ADHD & Focus

The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind

B. Alan Wallace · 2006

Relax first. Then steady. Then bright. Ten stages is a long road, and every step of it begins with noticing that you drifted.

Don't Feed the Monkey Mind

Jennifer Shannon

Every time you feed the monkey — every act of avoidance, reassurance-seeking, or compulsion — you teach it the threat was real.

Driven to Distraction

Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey

ADHD is not a disorder of knowing what to do. It is a disorder of doing what you know.

Feeling Good

David D. Burns

How you feel is not determined by what happens to you — it's determined by what you tell yourself about what happens.

Focus

Daniel Goleman

The ability to focus is the hidden driver of excellence — yet our schools, workplaces, and devices are engineered to fragment it.

Getting Things Done

David Allen

Your brain is a terrible office. It stores ideas, not systems. Move the thinking out of your head.

The Power of Now

Eckhart Tolle

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.

Self-Care for People with ADHD

Sasha Hamdani

ADHD doesn't mean you're bad at self-care. It means the mainstream advice was never written for your brain.

Scattered Minds

Gabor Maté · 1999

You are not broken. You are unmet.

Taking Charge of Adult ADHD

Russell A. Barkley

ADHD is not a problem of knowing what to do. It is a problem of doing what you know.

Unmasking Autism

Devon Price · 2022

Unmasking is not becoming a brand-new person. It is letting the person who was already there stop apologizing for existing.

Building a Second Brain

Tiago Forte · 2022

A note is only valuable when it can return at the moment of use.

The Explosive Child

Ross W. Greene · 1998

And it's a lot easier when your kid is your partner instead of your enemy.

ADHD 2.0

Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey

Progress with ADHD is rarely about trying harder. It is about designing better conditions.

How to Become a Straight-A Student

Cal Newport · 2006

Grades improve when studying becomes a system instead of a mood.

Hyperfocus

Chris Bailey · 2018

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