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Billd, that’s interesting. My dad had acute ADD and he could sell ice to an Inuit. Then on this forum, over in “The Workplace,” I found this bit:
“I have lots of ADHD friends who successfully [sic] in occupations such as various trades in construction, music industry, film industry, sales, teaching, almost anything to do with computers, acting, theatre, comedy…”
Clearly there are people with ADD who CAN sell. And while I don’t dispute there are ADDers who can’t, I have never seen any study suggesting that ADD=inhibited/bad salesperson. ADDers are all sorts of things. The question is, which of those things can be traced directly to ADD?…
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