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This Mechanic Quit His Job to Go to Med School in His 40s

2019

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Starting med school in your 40s is daunting, but it's never too late to chase your dreams. Carl Allamby made a midlife career change after 25 years as a mechanic. He decided to trade his socket wrench for a stethoscope and chase his dream of becoming a doctor. See more...

03:33 min

Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive

Are you driven to distraction at work? Best-selling author Edward M. Hallowell, MD, the world’s leading expert on ADD and ADHD, has set his sights on a new goal: helping people feel more in control and productive at work.

Edward M. Hallowell

Learning Outside the Lines: Two Ivy League Students with Learning Disabilities and ADHD Give You the Tools for Academic Success and Educational Revolution

Written by two Ivy League graduates who struggled with learning disabilities and ADHD, Learning Outside the Lines teaches students how to take control of their education and find true success with brilliant and easy study suggestions and tips.

Jonathan Mooney, David Cole, Edward M. Hallowell (foreword)

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10 Unconventional Ways to Find Your Optimal Level of Focus

Want to gain access to deeper, more creative thinking and keep your ideas organized at the same time? It’s not impossible.

Edward Hallowell

5 Reasons You Can’t Focus and What to Do About It

Feel like you can never focus deeply? You’re probably not meeting these needs for continued attention.

Edward Hallowell

9 to 5 with ADD: Practical Work Strategies for Clever ADHD Brains

Here, two successful entrepreneurs with ADD answer the most common and plaguing questions from ADDitude readers trying to manage their symptoms at work.

Edward Hallowell, Peter Shankman

5 Rules for Succeeding in the Workplace When You Have ADHD

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.

Edward Hallowell

Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart People Underperform

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.

Edward Hallowell

Because I Come from a Crazy Family: The Making of a Psychiatrist

From the bestselling author of the classic book on ADD, Driven to Distraction, a memoir of the strange upbringing that shaped Dr. Edward M. Hallowell’s celebrated career. When Edward M. Hallowell was eleven, a voice out of nowhere told him he should become a psychiatrist.

Edward M. Hallowell

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Superparenting for ADD: An Innovative Approach to Raising Your Distracted Child

With decades of experience working with ADD children, Dr. Edward Hallowell has long argued that ADD is too often misunderstood, mistreated, and mislabeled as a “disability.” Now he teams up with top academic ADD researcher Peter S. Jensen, M.D.

Edward M. Hallowell, Peter S. Jensen

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Married to Distraction: How to Restore Intimacy and Strengthen Your Partnership in an Age of Interruption

Are you more distant from your spouse than you’d like to be? Do you or your spouse waste time mindlessly viewing email or surfing the Web? Welcome to the club! Modern marriage is busy, distracted, and overloaded to extremes, with ever-increasing lists of things to do, superficial electronic...

Edward M. Hallowell, Sue George Hallowell, Melissa Orlov

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Self-Development