For EVERY Brain

Beyond amazing. Anyone who reads this will be better for it. Enjoyable, funny, and SO practical.
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Phenomenal!

Everyone with ADHD must read!! Haven't felt this empowered and aligned in a long time!! This book is full of valuable information and truly left feeling inspired and with new tools in my toolbox.

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This reading was most inspiring!

Most of this book gives me practical insights. However, I'm an aging person with ADHD, and I'm wondreing if the author would know about ADHD and aging?

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Don't believe the hype - this book isn't worth it

As a 30-something adult with managed ADHD, Primarily Inattentive Type, I was really disappointed with this book.

The biggest thing I've learned is that just about anyone can get a book published these days. I've read numerous other titles both in paper and audiobook format. I cannot in good conscious recommend this book to anyone in its current state.

I've outlined the pros and cons for potential readers/listeners:

PROS:

- Author has ADHD, and some of the situations described are relatable.

- There was a few tips nested throughout the book that would prove useful for some subsection of people with ADHD.

- The descriptions of how people with ADHD often feel after making mistakes will be recognizable for many, and might be worth reading for parents, spouses and partners.

CONS:

- The cadence and inflection of the reading voice during points of emphasis borders on annoying and overly cutesy, making for some painful listening.

- Author constantly (I mean constantly) vaunts his supposed lifestyle as a jet-setting 30-something to the point of exhaustion on the part of the reader. Ironically, anyone who has led that lifestyle knows it's about as interesting and useful to the reader as describing a regular commute to work by car would be.

- Listening to long drawn out passages that are essentially just poorly crafted humblebrags which end up derailing the chapter and leading to nothing actionable or substantive. Yes, yes, we get it, you keynote conferences. Can we all move on please?

- Author's painful and subtle plugging of his "online courses" and "webinars", couched by what reads/listens as a phony show of humility; paraphrasing him "I'm so blessed and lucky to have the opportunity to share what I've learned with others in my online courses and upcoming webinars"

- Chapters are light on any real "things you can do". Mostly the book is just anecdote, with painfully obvious (even to someone with ADHD) suggestions as sidecars, making the book way longer than it needs to be. A single article with bullet points would have sufficed, even for the most attentive and interested non-adhd listener.

- Author piggybacks a running commentary of his failed marriage throughout the later half the book, which grows old and adds little value to reader.

- Makes subtle and dubious claims about the connection between having ADHD and having a "super fast brain", which he implies are somehow causal rather that just correlated.

- Further to the point above, it's frustrating, (as someone with ADHD, who is well informed on the topic) that the author continues to perpetuate and give credence to the unprovable and incredulous claim that ADHD is some sort of miraculous gift, and that we are blessed with "fast brains". The scientific literature does not currently support this line of reasoning. In the same way many disabled people despise the niceties of "handi-capable" pseudo-empowerment, so too do many people with ADHD who have suffered immeasurably for years, despise the suggestion that it is somehow a gift or should be reframed to be thought of as one. This isn't to suggest a negative outlook, but that separating one's true gifts (high intelligence, etc.) from deficits (ADHD symptoms) which need to be managed is a much stronger form of honest empowerment and self reflection.

- No significant references or further reading for people who want to continue their learning.

- Fails to effectively outline the importance of first-line medications in the treatment of symptoms of ADHD, and instead takes a weird, uninformed "big pharma is out to get us man" line of reasoning - completely missing the purpose and incredible usefulness of medications to alleviate symptoms, freeing patients to effectively make use of techniques, develop good habbits, etc.

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Very Little Info, A Lot of Author Self Indulgence

There's a bit of useful information here, but getting it can be a bit painful.

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