num_pages: 144
description: 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 authors 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 ADHDMost 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 10000 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 todays 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.
language: English
title: Adult ADHD: How to Succeed as a Hunter in a Farmer's World
publisher: Park Street Press