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ADHD Isn’t a Discipline Problem

I work with a lot of creative people, and a good number of them have ADHD. Diagnosed, undiagnosed, or somewhere in the long waiting room in between. The sentence I say most often in those sessions: you don’t have a discipline problem. You have a brain that runs on interest, not importance. Those are different […]

Because It Is a Skill You Never Learned

For a lot of people, doing nothing was never neutral. If you grew up in a home where love tracked achievement, or where the mood could turn and staying busy kept you useful and out of range, your nervous system filed rest under unsafe, and productivity became less a habit than a shelter. Fast forward […]