Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
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.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Software developer Anderson debuts with a pragmatic guide to help adults with ADHD harness their unique skills and understand the thought patterns underpinning them. After reviewing ADHD types, traits, and presentations, Anderson goes on to outline how "body doubling"—working in the presence of another person—aids productivity, and how changing one's environment stokes motivation. Readers are also encouraged to draft a list of "personal wins" to combat the "success amnesia" that can plague those with ADHD, who are often sensitive to rejection and likelier to focus more on negative experiences than positive ones. Anderson's lifelong struggle with "chronic lateness" underpins his advice to keep a "log" of one's travel times in order to plan better in the future. Elsewhere, he repackages common wisdom into catchy takeaways (for example, readers should "eat the ice cream first," or start with easier tasks to "build up your motivation momentum" before tackling challenging ones). While the general overview sections are light on the science of ADHD, Anderson's take your pick, low-stakes approach (readers should seek strategies that work for now and switch them up frequently) will appeal to those looking to simplify their day-to-day lives. Newly diagnosed readers in particular will find this a useful starting point. (Self-published)
Customer Reviews
Insightful and straightforward
Very quick read jam packed with useful strategies to help people with adhd become the people they know they want to be. Everything is explained clearly with casual language that makes the book accessible to any reader. I look forward to implementing some of these changes myself.