How to harness your ADHD "hunter" strengths to start your own business and prosper in the workplace
* Provides organizational strategies, tips to maintain focus, and tools to set goals, build a business plan, and discover the right project to keep you motivated
* Shares ADHD success stories from Fortune 500 CEOs, inventors, small business owners, and the author's own experience in launching new businesses
* Explains the positive side of ADHD behavior in the context of creating a business, working within an existing company, and raising children with ADHD
Most people do not "grow out" of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). For many, their ADHD traits have led to difficulties in school, relationships, and work. But for our hunter-gatherer ancestors these characteristics were necessary for survival. Hunters must be easily distractible, constantly scanning their environment, and unafraid of taking risks. When humanity experienced the agricultural revolution 10,000 years ago, a vastly different type of personality--the methodical "Farmer"--became dominant. Most of our modern world is tailored to this Farmer personality, from 9-to-5 jobs to the structure of public schools, leaving ADHD Hunters feeling like unsuccessful outcasts. However, the Hunter skill set offers many opportunities for success in today's Farmer society--if you learn how to embrace your ADHD traits instead of fighting against them.
In this step-by-step guide, Thom Hartmann explains the positive side of Hunter behavior. He reveals how Hunters make excellent entrepreneurs, sharing ADHD success stories from Fortune 500 CEOs, inventors, small business owners, and his own hands-on experience in launching new businesses. Drawing on solid scientific and psychological principles, he provides easy-to-follow organizational strategies, tips to maintain focus and create a distraction-free workspace, and tools to set goals, build a business plan, and discover the right business project to keep you motivated. Hartmann shares valuable advice for both the Hunter entrepreneur and the Hunter within an existing company and for curtailing the aggressive side of the Hunter personality in group situations or manager positions.
Revealing the many ADHD opportunities hidden within the challenges of work, relationships, and day-to-day life, Hartmann also includes tips on navigating family relationships and parenting--for most Hunter parents are also raising Hunter children.
How to harness your ADHD "hunter" strengths to start your own business and prosper in the workplace
* Provides organizational strategies, tips to maintain focus, and tools to set goals, build a business plan, and discover the right project to keep you motivated
* Shares ADHD success stories from Fortune 500 CEOs, inventors, small business owners, and the author's own experience in launching new businesses
* Explains the positive side of ADHD behavior in the context of creating a business, working within an existing company, and raising children with ADHD
Most people do not "grow out" of Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). For many, their ADHD traits have led to difficulties in school, relationships, and work. But for our hunter-gatherer ancestors these characteristics were necessary for survival. Hunters must be easily distractible, constantly scanning their environment, and unafraid of taking risks. When humanity experienced the agricultural revolution 10,000 years ago, a vastly different type of personality--the methodical "Farmer"--became dominant. Most of our modern world is tailored to this Farmer personality, from 9-to-5 jobs to the structure of public schools, leaving ADHD Hunters feeling like unsuccessful outcasts. However, the Hunter skill set offers many opportunities for success in today's Farmer society--if you learn how to embrace your ADHD traits instead of fighting against them.
In this step-by-step guide, Thom Hartmann explains the positive side of Hunter behavior. He reveals how Hunters make excellent entrepreneurs, sharing ADHD success stories from Fortune 500 CEOs, inventors, small business owners, and his own hands-on experience in launching new businesses. Drawing on solid scientific and psychological principles, he provides easy-to-follow organizational strategies, tips to maintain focus and create a distraction-free workspace, and tools to set goals, build a business plan, and discover the right business project to keep you motivated. Hartmann shares valuable advice for both the Hunter entrepreneur and the Hunter within an existing company and for curtailing the aggressive side of the Hunter personality in group situations or manager positions.
Revealing the many ADHD opportunities hidden within the challenges of work, relationships, and day-to-day life, Hartmann also includes tips on navigating family relationships and parenting--for most Hunter parents are also raising Hunter children.
Foreword by Michael Popkin, Ph.D.
An Entrepreneur’s Note to the Reader by Wilson Harrell
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
How This Book Will Help You
TERRITORY ONE
What Is Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, and Why Is It
Important?
1 Nature of ADHD
2 Understanding Why ADHD People Are Hunters
3 The Challenges of an ADHD Business Hunter
4 ADHD Medications and Therapies
TERRITORY TWO
How to Succeed with ADHD in the Workplace
5 Hunters within Someone Else’s Company
6 Succeeding with ADHD in the Workplace
TERRITORY THREE
ADHD and Entrepreneurship: Building Your Own Business
7 The Hunter as Entrepreneur
8 Choosing to Start a Business: Your Best Hunt
9 Picking Out the Prey:
What’s Your Best Business Goal?
TERRITORY FOUR
Hunting for Success: Building a Life With, Through, and in Spite of
Your ADHD
10 Preparing for the Hunt: Ways to Push through ADHD
11 Tracking the Prey: Heading for Success
12 Enjoying the Fruits of the Hunt
Bibliography
Recommended Reading
Index
About the Author
Thom Hartmann is the host of the nationally and internationally syndicated talkshow The Thom Hartmann Program and the TV show The Big Picture on the Free Speech TV network. He is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of 24 books, including Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception, ADHD and the Edison Gene, and The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight. A former psychotherapist and founder of the Hunter School, a residential and day school for children with ADHD, he lives in Washington, D.C.
“Thom Hartmann’s Adult ADHD is a classic. This book is inspiring,
validating, and an extremely practical guide for the entrepreneur
with a ‘hunter’s’ mind. Adult ADHD continues to make an important
and unique contribution to the field and to adults with ADHD who
long to lead a meaningful and satisfying life.”
*Sari Solden, MS, LMFT, author of Women with Attention Deficit
Disorder and Journeys Through ADDultho*
“Thom Hartmann is one of the most prolific cultural-creatives of
our time. In this book he discloses the inner secret of how he uses
his own self-diagnosis of Adult ADD, to ‘make the lemonade’ from
what otherwise might be considered a disorder. Likewise, he shows
how many of the movers and shakers of our world have succeeded the
same way he has--by recognizing how their unique ‘hunter’ talents
readily lead both to creative opportunities and financial
success.”
*Stephen Larsen, Ph.D., author of Joseph Campbell: A Fire in the
Mind and The Neurofeedback Solution*
“As an empathetic native guide, Hartmann inspires hunters to revel
in their evolutionary legacy. He provides empowering strategies for
transforming ADHD challenges into tools for prospering in the
farmer’s domain. The motivating success stories reveal a multitude
of paths to self-acceptance and celebrate the triumph of
neurodiversity over conformity.”
*Ellen Littman, Ph.D., coauthor of Understanding Girls with
ADHD*
“My therapy clients often compare ADHD to a radio that is on
scan--they jump from station to station and get a lot of static.
This book is like landing on The Thom Hartmann Program on your
radio--a rare voice of calm, clarity, and compassion that reminds
us our so-called deficits can often reveal our greatest
strengths.”
*Rabbi Hillel Zeitlin, LCSW-C, director of the Maryland Institute
for Ericksonian Hypnosis & Psychoth*
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