Faster Than Normal
Turbocharge Your Focus, Productivity, and Success with the Secrets of the ADHD Brain
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Narrated by:
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Peter Shankman
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Bernie Wagenblast
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Written by:
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Peter Shankman
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Edward Hallowell - foreword
About this listen
A refreshingly practical and honest guide that rewrites the script on ADHD
Peter Shankman is a busy guy - a media entrepreneur who runs several businesses, gives keynote speeches around the world, hosts a popular podcast, runs marathons and Iron Mans, is a licensed skydiver, dabbles in angel investing, and is a loving father to his young daughter.
Simply put, he always seems to have more than 24 hours in a day. How does he do it? Peter attributes his unusually high energy level and extreme productivity to his ADHD.
In Faster Than Normal, Shankman shares his hard-won insights and daily hacks for making ADHD a secret weapon for living a full and deeply satisfying life. Both inspiring and practical, the book presents life rules, best practices, and simple but powerful ways to:
- Harness your creative energy to generate and execute your ideas
- Direct your hyperfocus to get things done
- Identify your pitfalls - and avoid them
- Streamline your daily routine to eliminate distractions
- Use apps and other tech innovations to free up your time and energy
Filled with ingenious hacks and supportive self-care advice, this is the positive, practical book the ADHD community has long needed - and is also an invaluable handbook for anyone who's sick of feeling overwhelmed and wants to drive their faster-than-normal brain at maximum speed...without crashing.
©2017 Peter Shankman (P)2017 Penguin AudioYou may also enjoy...
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- Ericka
- 2020-12-08
For EVERY Brain
Beyond amazing. Anyone who reads this will be better for it. Enjoyable, funny, and SO practical.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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- Matthew Mann
- 2022-06-24
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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- Marie Jobin
- 2022-07-25
Thank you!
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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Overall1 out of 5 stars
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- David F. Wallace
- 2017-11-30
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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- Clay Richardson
- 2019-07-16
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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