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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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01

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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02

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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03

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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04

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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05

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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06

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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07

Gabor Maté · 1999

Scattered Minds

You are not broken. You are unmet.

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08

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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09

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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10

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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11

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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12

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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13

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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14

Chris Bailey · 2018

Hyperfocus

The point is not more hours of strain. It is better stewardship of attention.

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