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I read Delivered from Distraction first as well. It’s probably the best one to read. After all, if the first thing you looked at after finding out you have ADHD is a Barkley video, you would probably go out and shoot yourself.
Although I feel I have been fairly successful, I feel that ADHD has severely limited my potential. I also think that if I had been diagnosed earlier, even as late as before I hit forty, I would have been far more successful. But every day is a new day and knowledge is power.
Robbo, I have noticed a marked improvement in the readability of your posts in the past month or so. They seem much more coherent and well thought out than were your first posts, which I had difficulty in reading. I agree that writing is an art form. Simple well crafted sentences using simple carefully selected words is probably the best way to go. If you’re interested in better writing, you should check out “Elements of Style” by Strunk. And as in most things, practice will increase proficiency.
I remember hearing about a writer speak of an editor he once had. The writer would submit a piece to the editor who would look it over, hand it back, and ask “Is this the best you can do?” Where upon the writer would go back and rework the piece. This process would happen several times with each piece the writer submitted. He later admitted that the editor caused him to become a great writer, just through his own “self editing.” Years later, the writer found out that the editor could not read.
You mentioned school. I remember when I was probably eight years old, the teacher would give homework assignments. If I copied the assignment off the board, I would get it wrong. If I didn’t get it wrong, I would forget it at school or lost it before I got home. My mother would make me call a classmate (Linda, not cool to call a girl for assignments when you’re eight years old) to find out what the homework was. If I managed to copy it down correctly on this attempt, I would be doing good. Then it would take three hours of aggrivation and tears to do maybe twenty minutes of work. The next day as I handed in the answers to the odd numbered problems to the history questions, I would find out that it should have been the odd numbered problems in the geography book. 😯
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