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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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Daniel Goleman
Focus
Daniel Goleman on the three kinds of attention — inner, other, and outer — and how to train each for leadership and a meaningful life.
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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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Jennifer Shannon
Don't Feed the Monkey Mind
Jennifer Shannon's CBT-based playbook for breaking the anxiety loop — recognize the monkey mind and stop feeding it your attention.
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Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey
Driven to Distraction
Hallowell and Ratey's foundational guide to recognizing and thriving with adult ADHD — symptoms, strengths, and structure.
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David D. Burns
Feeling Good
Core idea: 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
Core idea: Your brain is a terrible office. It stores ideas, not systems. Move the thinking out of your head.
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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
Sasha Hamdani's ADHD-friendly self-care system — sleep, movement, focus, and emotion regulation built for actual ADHD brains.
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Russell A. Barkley
Taking Charge of Adult ADHD
Core idea: ADHD is a disorder of performance, not intelligence — and understanding this changes how you approach it.
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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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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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