Faster Than Normal

Turbocharge Your Focus, Productivity, and Success with the Secrets of the ADHD Brain

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Faster Than Normal

By: Peter Shankman, Edward Hallowell - introduction

Narrated by: Peter Shankman, Bernie Wagenblast

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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 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.

Attention Deficit Disorders

Mental Health

Personal Development

Personal Success

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Psychology & Mental Health

Time Management

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Critic reviews

"Peter is a pioneer, an adventurer, an inventor and a seer. His advice is the best kind of advice. It is advice learned in the trenches, in the arena, on the fields of life."
--Edward Hallowell, MD, from the Foreword, bestselling author of Driven to Distraction

“Peter Shankman is living proof that living outside the bell-shaped curve, combined with a drive to succeed, can produce amazing results.”
--Jordan D. Metzl, MD, author of The Exercise Cure

“While ADHD may be considered a ‘deficit’ to some, Shankman positions it as an attribute within the context of our immediate future. ADHD is a unique gift of creative synthesis that makes sense only inside of the complex digital networks and hyper-stimulation that now defines us.”
--Amanda Steinberg, CEO, Worth Financial and author of Worth It

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If you've figured out you've got a touch of ADD, then this book is gold dust. I don't know how it would suit someone at the more extreme full-on ADHD end of the spectrum, but for me, there are some top common sense tips which have helped greatly.

There is a chapter for anyone living with someone with ADD, which you really should play to them. It all makes so much sense.

I particularly liked the use of the "SQUIRREL!" audio bullet points. And overall it's actually very funny.

The only bit that makes me a little uncomfortable is the rather Americanised use of terms like 'gifted', or referring to what I would call 'normal' people as having "slower" brains. To a 'slower brained' person (his words!), this might come across as rather patronising. I guess that's just one of those 'different side of the pond' language things.

If you don't 'get' much of this book, then it's possible you've either not got ADD or have misdiagnosed yourself.
If a whole bunch of stuff rings true and you're left thinking "OMFG that's me" - then this is for you!
But if you're more concerned about whether the author is using a slightly higher voice when reading a female quote, than what he's actually saying, then it's more than likely that you DO have ADD and should be listening more closely to the what is being said.

Well worth a credit!