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 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 huntergatherer 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 personalitythe methodical Farmerbecame dominant Most of our modern world is tailored to this Farmer personality from 9to5 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 societyif you learn how to embrace your ADHD traits instead of fighting against them

In this stepbystep 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 handson experience in launching new businesses Drawing on solid scientific and psychological principles he provides easytofollow organizational strategies tips to maintain focus and create a distractionfree 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 daytoday life Hartmann also includes tips on navigating family relationships and parentingfor most Hunter parents are also raising Hunter children