By Edward Hallowell, John Ratey — 2021
Happier living with ADHD means unwrapping and exalting your gifts. Begin by using these 7 strategies tailored to your brain’s special ways and engineered to transform your ADHD into a life-enhancer.
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Tips and tricks I use daily.
The ongoing dialogue I have with my own perspective and emotions is the biggest job I’ve ever undertaken. Exploring this internal give-and-take forces me to grow in surprising ways.
In a work world dominated by automation, digitalization, and increasing incivility, the need for one group of workers, those whom I call “sensitive strivers,” has never been greater.
Let’s move beyond superpowers but not forget to keep promoting our strengths.
Give your child the self-esteem and skills to become a self-actualized adult who embraces self-discovery. That is every parent’s goal, but it is especially challenging—and important—when your child is neurodivergent. Use these four steps to help your child on that journey.
Getting an official diagnosis as an adult is hard – but this year I got to know what being female and neurodivergent means.
The aspects that make them most creative may also be their biggest risk.
Creativity. It’s often cited as a valuable (but tough to harness) benefit of having ADHD. As it turns out, creativity is more than a perk; it is a requirement. To be healthy and productive, you must carve out time to pursue your creative passions.
Many people with neurological conditions such as autism spectrum disorder and dyslexia have extraordinary skills, including in pattern recognition, memory, and mathematics. Yet they often struggle to fit the profiles sought by employers.
In Redesign Your Mind I describe personality as being made up of three constituent parts: original personality, formed personality, and available personality.