By David J. Hill — 2016
Siddhartha Mukherjee traced the history of cancer and significant discoveries and theories along the way. He said creativity is the most critical tool today’s young people have in finding ways to cure the disease.
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Embracing neurodiversity, from ADHD to dyslexia, gives adland a creative edge.
Individuals who have ADHD can be excellent and even inspired employees when placed in the right job with the correct structures in place.
Creativity. It’s often cited as a valuable (but tough to harness) benefit of having ADHD. As it turns out, creativity is more than a perk; it is a requirement. To be healthy and productive, you must carve out time to pursue your creative passions.
Here, two successful entrepreneurs with ADD answer the most common and plaguing questions from ADDitude readers trying to manage their symptoms at work.
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.
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.
Jobs need to be chosen that make use of the strengths of people with autism or Asperger’s syndrome.