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Engineer by Training, Craftsperson at Heart

By Duanduan Han — 2018

One way to find balance is to separate work from your outside life entirely, and leave science in the lab. But I see it differently: I have found joy and balance by joining my research and hobbies.

Read on www.nature.com

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ADHD and Relationships

If you have ADHD, you might find it hard to date, make friends, or parent. That’s partly because good relationships require you to be aware of other people's thoughts and feelings. But ADHD can make it hard for you to pay attention or react the right way.

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Hope Cristol
2021
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ADHD in the Workplace

Individuals who have ADHD can be excellent and even inspired employees when placed in the right job with the correct structures in place.

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Jathan Janove
2020
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Hansel & Gretel and the Importance of Creative Strategies

When an ADHD brain leaves one task to go to another, and then back again, they may have a difficult time finding their footing in what they were doing in that original task, AND not have the motivation to begin it.

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Pam Barton
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Crazy Good: How Mental Illnesses Help Entrepreneurs Thrive

Michael A. Freeman had long noticed that entrepreneurs seem inclined to have mental health issues. Freeman and California-Berkeley psychology professor Sheri Johnson decided to take a deeper look at the issue.

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Matt McFarland
2015
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5 Reasons You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It

Feel like you can never focus deeply? You’re probably not meeting these needs for continued attention.

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Edward Hallowell
2014
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The Beauty in Mental Illness

Look more closely and you’ll see.

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Edward Hallowell
2018
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9 to 5 with ADD: Practical Work Strategies for Clever ADHD Brains

Here, two successful entrepreneurs with ADD answer the most common and plaguing questions from ADDitude readers trying to manage their symptoms at work.

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Edward Hallowell, Peter Shankman
2018
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5 Rules for Succeeding in the Workplace When You Have ADHD

Rules one through five are the same: Find the right job. This rule gets broken all the time, however, leaving millions of adults with ADHD in jobs that they don’t like but don’t dare get out of. Here’s how to break the cycle.

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Edward Hallowell
2018
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Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart People Underperform

Frenzied executives who fidget through meetings, lose track of their appointments, and jab at the “door close” button on the elevator aren’t crazy—just crazed. They suffer from a newly recognized neurological phenomenon that the author, a psychiatrist, calls attention deficit trait, or ADT.

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Edward Hallowell
2005
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Choosing the Right Job for People with Autism or Asperger’s Syndrome

Jobs need to be chosen that make use of the strengths of people with autism or Asperger’s syndrome.

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Temple Grandin
1999
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