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    Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD
    Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD
    Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD
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    Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD

    By Jesse J. Anderson

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    Discover the keys to embracing your ADHD strengths and quirks with Extra Focus.

     

    This book isn't a stuffy, clinical rundown of ADHD. It's more like a friendly chat over coffee with a good friend who gets it. We'll unravel some of the myths and mysteries of the ADHD mind, learn why most self-help strategies don't work for us, and how we can develop strategies that work with our brain instead of against it.

     

    Written by an adult with ADHD for adults with ADHD, this empowering book provides the compassionate understanding and practical strategies you need to stop struggling and start thriving.

     

    Jesse J. Anderson draws from his personal journey of being diagnosed with ADHD as an adult to offer encouragement, motivation, and strategies tailored for ADHD brains.

     

    You'll discover:

     

     • The 4 Cs of Motivation framework for driving action and building momentum

     • Practical tips for developing habits and routines that don't feel like cruel and unusual punishment

     • Managing your energy and avoiding ADHD burnout.

     • Navigating the clockless mind, including strategies for time estimation and managing chronic lateness

     • Memory techniques to stop losing track of tasks, ideas, and your car keys

     • Strategies for coping with success amnesia, imposter syndrome, rejection sensitivity, and shame spirals

     

    Extra Focus is your personal roadmap to understanding and living with adult ADHD. It's a no-judgement zone filled with understanding and guidance from someone who understands what it's like to live with ADHD (in a world that doesn't seem to understand it).

     

    Written in a warm, down-to-earth style, Extra Focus serves as an essential guide to understanding your neurodivergence and taking control of your ADHD rather than letting it control you. Find motivation in understanding how your brain works. Discover brain hacks that make productivity and organization feel possible.

     

    Stop struggling and start thriving with the empowering wisdom of Extra Focus. It's your quick start guide to living a happier, more focused, and truly rewarding life with adult ADHD.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVada Press
    Release dateSep 19, 2023
    ISBN9798988644217
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    Jesse J. Anderson

    Jesse J. Anderson currently lives in Puyallup, WA with his wife and three children. He wears multiple hats as a writer, speaker, coach, ADHD advocate, and maker of things. Diagnosed at 36, Jesse writes about his insights and experiences living with ADHD in the weekly newsletter, Extra Focus (extrafocus.com), helping countless readers navigate their own ADHD journeys or better understand their loved ones. He is known for his humorous, relatable, and insightful posts about ADHD under the handle @adhdjesse, and has been featured in publications including Today and Huff Post.

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    • 5/5
      A book about ADHD that's straight to the point and not rambly! Found myself nodding along so many times. Even though I had to keep putting it down (ADHD), I kept coming back, the first book I've finished in a while! Such a useful book and I cannot recommend it enough!

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    • 5/5
      This book is very easy to read and has some good insights for people who want to overcome ADHD. If you'd been dealing with ADHD for a long time like me a lot of the strategies may be reminders of things you already do or have tried to do in the past but are accurate and still helpful. I did learn from this book and thank the author for the time and effort it took to write it.

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    Extra Focus - Jesse J. Anderson

    Unraveling the ADHD Mind

    What Is ADHD?

    ADHD has a PR problem: most people have heard of it, but most people don’t actually know what it is. The confusion starts with its name.

    ADHD is a terrible name.

    To start, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder carries a lot of unfortunate baggage. Far from clarifying the many myths out there about ADHD, the name itself perpetuates many of them. It’s confusing and misleading.

    You may have heard the name and thought, I can’t have ADHD, I’m not hyperactive! or "I can’t have ADHD, I have plenty of attention for the things that interest me." As I mentioned earlier, for most of my life it had never occurred to me I could have ADHD, either. If the name was more accurate, could I have been diagnosed earlier in life? It’s definitely a possibility.

    Let’s take a few moments to dissect the name further.

    Attention Deficit

    Those of us with ADHD don’t actually have a deficit of attention. It’s the opposite—we have an abundance of it! We’re often paying attention to everything all at once; so much so that we can lose track of what’s important.

    We get bombarded by all the incoming signals, paying so much attention to all that we see and hear around us that we can’t regulate the flood of data to focus on what should matter most.

    The things that should be most important (the person talking to us, the project we’re working on, the signals our body sends us to eat, drink, or go to the bathroom) often get lost in the noise.

    Rather than characterizing those with ADHD as having an attention deficit, it would be far more accurate to say they have a dysregulation of attention.

    When everything is shouting for your attention, it’s difficult to regulate that attention and pick a specific voice out of the noise.

    Hyperactivity

    While some people with ADHD are noticeably hyperactive, many are not. This is particularly true for women, who are less likely to present symptoms of being hyperactive, at least outwardly. ¹ Many people think they can’t possibly have ADHD because they assume external hyperactivity is a required symptom. Who can blame them—it’s right there in the name!

    But hyperactivity is only one way ADHD can present itself.

    Some people with ADHD say they experience hyperactivity more on the inside of their brain, even when they seem perfectly calm from the outside.

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    Maybe you’re a fast talker, or someone who fidgets, doodles, or bounces your leg when sitting—all ways of working out that internal hyperactivity. Perhaps you feel like your brain is constantly racing, juggling forty-seven ideas at once, always chasing down a new thought, and then another one, and another one. But those feelings don’t present outwardly in a way others can see.

    You don’t look hyperactive, so the name doesn’t seem to fit.

    Disorder

    Words like disorder, disability, and deficit often carry a negative and stigmatized connotation. This is mostly because of ableism—the societal prejudice that casts disability and related words as something

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