People with AD(H)D think differently and personally - I love my AD(H)D, even though it can be very hard and difficult at times - but overall it made me more creative, smarter, funny & quick.

Learn to use how you think and don't let other people put you down - your mind is a gift not a curse!

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” - Albert Einstein

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Get Lateral


We are a tribe of people whose way of thinking is different -- and increasingly frustrated by modern society’s preference for linear thinking. Linear thinking is well-suited to the data-driven, multi-tasking, get-it-done-now 21st Century. We ultimately tend to be Lateral Thinkers.

We ADDers tend to be more right-brain dominant than non-ADDers, and right-brain dominance is associated with what Dr. Edward DeBono defined as Lateral Thinking: “a way of thinking which seeks the solution to problems through unorthodox methods which would normally be ignored by logical thinking.”

DaVinci had hundreds if not thousands of unfinished projects; yet was perhaps the most diversely talented man of all time. Einstein despised the conformity of school; probably did his homework the night before it was due. Thomas Edison – one of his teachers called him unteachable and “addled”, a 19th century word for ‘totally f’d up’.

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