Reading collection
ADHD & Focus
For the restless and the distracted. Books that meet you where you are.
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Collection index
A shelf with an argument.
Every collection gathers books around a practical life problem. Open the title that feels closest, then let the shelf widen the frame.
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Jennifer Shannon
Don't Feed the Monkey Mind
Every time you feed the monkey — every act of avoidance, reassurance-seeking, or compulsion — you teach it the threat was real.
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Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey
Driven to Distraction
ADHD is not a disorder of knowing what to do. It is a disorder of doing what you know.
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David D. Burns
Feeling Good
How you feel is not determined by what happens to you — it's determined by what you tell yourself about what happens.
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David Allen
Getting Things Done
Your brain is a terrible office. It stores ideas, not systems. Move the thinking out of your head.
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Daniel Goleman
Focus
The ability to focus is the hidden driver of excellence — yet our schools, workplaces, and devices are engineered to fragment it.
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Eckhart Tolle
The Power of Now
Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time — past and future — the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
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Gabor Maté · 1999
Scattered Minds
You are not broken. You are unmet.
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Sasha Hamdani
Self-Care for People with ADHD
ADHD doesn't mean you're bad at self-care. It means the mainstream advice was never written for your brain.
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Russell A. Barkley
Taking Charge of Adult ADHD
ADHD is not a problem of knowing what to do. It is a problem of doing what you know.
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Devon Price · 2022
Unmasking Autism
Unmasking is not becoming a brand-new person. It is letting the person who was already there stop apologizing for existing.
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Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey
ADHD 2.0
Progress with ADHD is rarely about trying harder. It is about designing better conditions.
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Tiago Forte · 2022
Building a Second Brain
A note is only valuable when it can return at the moment of use.
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Cal Newport · 2006
How to Become a Straight-A Student
Grades improve when studying becomes a system instead of a mood.
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Chris Bailey · 2018
Hyperfocus
The point is not more hours of strain. It is better stewardship of attention.
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Become Hard To Manipulate
A persuasion-literacy curriculum. Read these and you'll start to see the strings: in ads, in apps, in conversations, in your own head.
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Better Conversations, Better Life
Most of your relationships are made of sentences. Six books on listening hard, speaking clearly, and turning conflict into connection.
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Brené Brown
Vulnerability, courage, and the profound power of showing up as yourself.
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