Severe Case of Modern Life

08/10/2015

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Khalil Gibran

Stew Friedman posted in LinkedIn the Story, "Do You Have a Severe Case of Modern Life," based on his interview with Dr. Ned Hallowell, a leading authority in the field of ADHD. Here are some of Hallowell's observations:

"Five to ten percent of the population has true ADD or ADHD. And I would say 75 to 80% have a severe case of "modern life" or what I call, attention deficit trait, ADT. That's not an inborn condition. If you have true ADD, you are born with it. ADT is induced by modern life — the busyness of modern life. In many ways, the great thing of modern life is you can do so much. But the curse of modern life is you can do so much.

"If you don't take control, then you become the victim of modern life. And instead of being wonderfully productive, you feel like you're running around in circles, feeling kind of frazzled and frantic and frenetic and forgetful and frustrated. If you're not careful, the world takes you over. One of the rules of modern life is if you don't take your time, it will be taken from you. As you let your circuits get overloaded, you tend to underperform and you feel frustrated. Most people's solution to everything is simply to try harder. It's imperative that you work smarter, not harder. It means creating boundaries and prioritizing. It means clearing out time to think."

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