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Summary: Great book for ADDers
Review: I must admit that I was a bit turned off by the word busniess in the title. I think the word employment may be a bit better.
The book itself is great though. The book has some great ideas to help ADDers become successful with employment. This book alo gives some idea about why many ADDers are not happy in thier current working enviromens. The book is "ADD Friendly". The ideas can also be used in other areas than just employment.
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Summary: Understand yourself to access the power within
Review: If you are an adult with ADD/ADHD, this book is like a key which will open up your world to a new, more hopeful, more successful future. Get it and your life and attitude will change dramatically. Thom Hartmann, one of the world's most respected experts on ADD, proposes a different perspective -- that people with ADD are like hunters in a farmers' world. The beauty of this idea is it sees ADDers as different, not neurologically defective. It's been said that it takes an ADD person to be an entrepreneur. "Hunters" are also great at sales, a creative work, at programming, at detective work. They're all aspects of the business world that benefit from the hunter personality. This book helps you learn put your best face forward, so you function at your best, and it helps you learn how to compensate for the lack of farmer traits.
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Summary: Understand yourself to access the power within
Review: If you are an adult with ADD/ADHD, this book is like a key which will open up your world to a new, more hopeful, more successful future. Get it and your life and attitude will change dramatically. Thom Hartmann, one of the world's most respected experts on ADD, proposes a different perspective -- that people with ADD are like hunters in a farmers' world. The beauty of this idea is it sees ADDers as different, not neurologically defective. It's been said that it takes an ADD person to be an entrepreneur. "Hunters" are also great at sales, a creative work, at programming, at detective work. They're all aspects of the business world that benefit from the hunter personality. This book helps you learn put your best face forward, so you function at your best, and it helps you learn how to compensate for the lack of farmer traits.
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Summary: ADHD Illuminated
Review: This is a valuable book for many reasons. It is well written in easily understood terms while at the same time being inspirational and motivational and just plain great common sense. It spends time helping us to understand ADHD as not being an affliction but as simply a different mode of being. It makes an analogy between the Hunter/Gatherer societies of early mankind and equates the ADHD personality with the "hunter" type. Careful detail conveys to us the keys to success with ADHD in the workplace and as an entrepeneur. My favorite part of the book is the wonderful section on practical advice for building a life using the myriad positive aspects of ADHD to one's own advantage. This creative and positive author has given us a short, easily digested book that we can return to again and again, as needed, that delivers to us (or rather returns to us)an appreciation of the attributes for success that come naturally to the AHDH person.
Primarily geared toward the adult with ADHD who is out in the workplace or business world, I feel this book is ESSENTIAL reading for all parents of ADHD children because of its incredible message of hope and its thoroughly postive attitude. It provides tools that parents of ADHD children can use to advocate for their children with physicians and educators. It reveals a different perspective than we are so often fed, changing the outlook from one of disability and affliction to one of great potential and even giftedness. For the ADHD young adult trying to get through the high school and college years, this book is indespensible. I think most success comes through the conscientious use of the unique gifts and talents with which each of us is born. This book restores and affirms the gifts of the ADHD personality and places them in perspective. Along with the intelligent advice for knowing and understanding oneself as a person with ADHD this book illuminates the built-in and unique possibilities that are often dismissed and overlooked. Don't miss it.
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Summary: ADHD Illuminated
Review: This is a valuable book for many reasons. It is well written in easily understood terms while at the same time being inspirational and motivational and just plain great common sense. It spends time helping us to understand ADHD as not being an affliction but as simply a different mode of being. It makes an analogy between the Hunter/Gatherer societies of early mankind and equates the ADHD personality with the "hunter" type. Careful detail conveys to us the keys to success with ADHD in the workplace and as an entrepeneur. My favorite part of the book is the wonderful section on practical advice for building a life using the myriad positive aspects of ADHD to one's own advantage. This creative and positive author has given us a short, easily digested book that we can return to again and again, as needed, that delivers to us (or rather returns to us)an appreciation of the attributes for success that come naturally to the AHDH person.
Primarily geared toward the adult with ADHD who is out in the workplace or business world, I feel this book is ESSENTIAL reading for all parents of ADHD children because of its incredible message of hope and its thoroughly postive attitude. It provides tools that parents of ADHD children can use to advocate for their children with physicians and educators. It reveals a different perspective than we are so often fed, changing the outlook from one of disability and affliction to one of great potential and even giftedness. For the ADHD young adult trying to get through the high school and college years, this book is indespensible. I think most success comes through the conscientious use of the unique gifts and talents with which each of us is born. This book restores and affirms the gifts of the ADHD personality and places them in perspective. Along with the intelligent advice for knowing and understanding oneself as a person with ADHD this book illuminates the built-in and unique possibilities that are often dismissed and overlooked. Don't miss it.
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Summary: Quick Informative Companion to ADHD: A Different Perception
Review: Thom Hartmann champions the concept that the "disorder" of ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) is really a constellation of genetic traits that are advantageous in the right context and originated in our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Instead of people with and without ADHD, he talks of "Hunters" and "Farmers". This concept in explained well in another Hartmann book, "ADD: A Different Perception". In this companion piece, Hartmann talks about how Hunters can prosper in the business world, as long as they understand their own strengths and weaknesses and pair themselves up with Farmer types to do the more mundane, cultivating aspects of running a company. Strengths of the Book: The book is easy to read, well-organized, and full of information, anecdotes, techniques to try, and clear explanation of Hartmann's theory of ADHD. This book is likely to be of value to anyone diagnosed (or not) with ADHD, even if they are not interested in being a part of the business community. Weaknesses of the Book: The book is not as well-edited as it should be ("they" for "the", "years" for "yards"). It also has an unfriendly-to-Farmer tone in the beginning (e.g., Farmers are "non-optimized", teachers giving lectures "drone") that is almost certainly unintended and is likely the result of the author having viewed the world through the lens of his own Hunterness. Hunters who read the book will probably not notice this; Farmer-types (like me) will notice it. Overall: For Hunters not in the business community, you'll get some benefit. For Hunters in the business world, BUY IT! For Farmers and middle-of-the-roaders (like most people) who have to deal with Hunters in their business or personal lives, it's highly recommended.
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Summary: Good, but his COMPLETE book contains this book!
Review: Thom Hartmann is GREAT! His Hunter/Farmer perspective is really useful.
His Creativity comparison opened my eyes.
And his specific ideas for creating your business like you were creating it with a franchise manual is truly inspired. BUT
This entire book appears to be copied directly out of COMPLETE GUIDE TO ADHD (2000). I own 3 other books on ADD by Thom Hartman (COMPLETE..., A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE, HEALING). I bought the book expecting two years worth of additional insight and maybe a more in-depth treatment of adult ADD and work. But I skimmed it and couldn't see anything that was different (I recently spent a lot of time analyzing and extracting personal & business ideas from COMPLETE... so I could easily recognized blocks of text and headings from memory.
CAVEAT - I did NOT go page-by-page, noting if there were any rephrasing, etc. But my conviction was strong enough I didn't want to waste an hour on this book (and I spent 20-30 hours on the COMPLETE... analysis). And I am starting a new business, so the specific subject was of very much interest to me...
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Summary: ADHD Secrets of Success
Review: Thom Hartmann's latest effort "ADHD Secrets of Success" is a very pragmatic guide to leading a successful life with ADHD. Although this book describes itself as being geared towards the business world and entrepreneurs I would argue that the tips and strategies found within it can be applied to almost any situation. ADHD the Secrets of Success is based on Thom's previous work and builds on his Hunter/Farmer Theory. Whether you're trying to start your own business or working for somebody else this book will be of immense value. It is filled with clearly outlined step-by-step tips and strategies for almost any situation one might encounter. This book is a definite must read for every ADHD adult. The only criticism I have is that the book doesn’t contain an index which is something that I consider to be must in any book for ADDers.
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Summary: Some New Laws of the Jungle
Review: What motivates a travel industry businessman to write nine popular books on the psychological phenomena called attention deficit hyperactivity disorder? His latest book, ADHD Secrets of Success, reiterates his earlier works. His son's psychiatrist had given his son a very negative and disempowering description of his son's perceptual abilities. Mr. Hartmann felt something was missing from this diagnosis, characterization, and prognosis - especially as it accentuated the disabilities associated with the disposition. As result of that dissatisfaction, Hartmann discovered a promising hypothesis for why these temperaments exist in the human population. It came to be known as the Hunter Theory. It presented the ADHD "disorder's" symptoms as adaptive traits in the social and cultural milieu before the advent of agriculture, i.e. the hunting and gathering era of humanity. Mr. Hartmann has argued that these temperaments are inherited traits that have gradually become maladaptive in a farmer/industrial culture and hence why psychology sees them as "disorders". This simple flip of perspective - a paradigm shift based a cultural and genetic displacement - and the turning of character weaknesses into strengths has encouraged many. It has given an added boost to the documented psychological relief and healing experienced by individuals diagnosed with the hunter mind-set. As a reviewer experienced with these issues in family and friends, too much is explained by the hypothesis for me to remain skeptical. However, there are some large loose ends in the argument that eventually need to investigated. To gain credibility from a broad spectrum of academics more corroboration is needed. Each every academic discipline that is affected by the hypothesis may be brought into some consilence by the theory. The hypothesis has major promise to reconcile many social, psychological and cultural contradictions. But, that would a very different kind of book. I hope he writes it. This book's purpose is to help those with ADHD traits trying to succeed in the business world. ADHD Secrets of Success is a small book, only 127 pages long, keeping in the spirit of the likely readership. Each of the four chapters (appropriately called territories), strives to get to the point of the argument and issues. The introductory chapter, What is Attention Deficit Disorder and Why Is it Important? describes the nature of ADHD, the hypothetical reasons for its existence, and where the strengths and pitfalls lie for the individual striving for conventional business success. The reading is as light as the references documenting the main points. Hartmann relies on his own authority as successful entrepreneur (with ADD traits?). Footnotes might have even distracted the audience from the main points! Most hunter business people would intuitively understand the value of the information brought to print through his direct experience. Chapter two (territory two) delves into problems of a hunter individual working within someone else's company. It explores some pros and cons in admitting the hunter worker's ADD traits. It is left to the reader to gauge whether there is still enough trust between management and the employee to make use of this honesty. Later, a list of meeting tips tries to provide some guidelines on how to remain successful in the workplace. Actually, many of these tips are standard team training consultant material. Unfortunately, many jobs require more than just knowing how to run a good meeting. Many hunter's fall down when their working style in the other major portions their jobs do not match their conventional-thinking co-workers. However, the chapter does affirm the suitability of hunter traits in management if detail work is attended to by support staff. In essence, the secretary or executive assistant performs the same function as the ADD personal coach (coaches rather than therapists are often used in the "treatment" of ADD). Chapter three (territory three) identifies the most solid guidelines for the committed entrepreneurial hunter. It is more successful then the previous chapter in providing specific guidelines in starting and ending a business venture. Afterall, this is where Thom Hartmann has the greater experience. It lays out the evolution of the business from relatively disorganized start-up to managed efficient production. It points to the specific pitfalls the lay in wait for the enterprising hunter. It advocates and provides a process of bailing out gracefully when the business demands changing culture. It challenges the reader with some hard questions for finding ones purpose and direction. All in all, this is the chapter that delivers on the title of the book. Chapter four (territory four) returns to the individual and by the end, covers spirituality. Specific techniques in cognitive behavior modification, body and posture awareness, meditation, emotional awareness, visualization, nutrition/exercise and finding ones spiritual center provide an all encompassing strategy in dealing with some the problems associated with hunter perceptual pitfalls. Most of this material is covered in detail in self-help psychology books and business inspirational material. The value here lies in the specific applicability of these truths to the Hunter's world. This chapter's sections may be used as jumping off points to literature that can guide the reader in more detail. This is true for the book as a whole. Perhaps leaving the reader a concluding quote from the author is the best way to conclude this review. "With these tools to track business quarry, Hunters can build and maintain successful enterprises, or increase their success within existing companies or organizations...as the concept of the Hunterness grows and evolves, more and more millions of people who've wondered all their lives why some things are just so hard to do will gain relief and insight. Hopefully, they'll even new solutions for the difficulties in their lives, and find new ways to become truly successful as Hunters in a business world"
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