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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A calm mind and even temper can help make peace with life’s difficulties.
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Kamilah Majied shares her advice for staying afloat when you feel like you’re drowning.
A few months and many deaths ago, I woke up exhausted, again. Every morning, I felt like I was rebuilding myself from the ground up. Waking up was hard. Getting to my desk to write was hard. Taking care of my body was hard. Remembering the point of it all was hard.
To deal life’s challenges, we need resources. Rick Hanson explains how to find the ones that lie inside yourself.
One trait of highly successful people is having a positive outlook on life, always moving forward, always learning – especially when it’s hard. We’re not typically grateful for the “worst” things in our lives. If we want to have a growth mindset, we should be.
No matter how great your life may be, you will eventually deal with disappointments, setbacks, failures, and even loss and trauma.
The pandemic has stripped our emotional reserves even further, laying bare our unique physical, social, and emotional vulnerabilities.
An interview with psychologist Daniel Gilbert
In low seasons, while you sit in the waiting room of life, patience is a superpower. But by adopting these seven mindsets, you can run circles around life’s challenges.
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We’ll be better prepared for life’s challenges if we cultivate these 12 inner strengths.