The ADHD Advantage

What You Thought Was a Diagnosis May Be Your Greatest Strength

By: Dale Archer MD

Narrated by: Walter Dixon

Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins

Publisher's summary

Here's why ADHD could be the key to your success.

For decades physicians delivered the diagnosis of ADHD to patients as bad news and warned them about a lifelong struggle of managing symptoms. But The ADHD Advantage explodes this outlook, showing that some of the most highly successful entrepreneurs, leaders, and entertainers have reached the pinnacle of success not in spite of their ADHD but because of it.

Although the ADHD stereotype is someone who can't sit still, in reality people with ADHD are endlessly curious, often adventurous, willing to take smart risks, and unusually resilient. They are creative, visionary, and entrepreneurial. Sharing the stories of highly successful people with ADHD, Dr. Archer offers a vitally important and inspiring new way to recognize ADHD traits in oneself or in one's loved ones, and then leverage them to great advantage - without drugs.

As someone who not only has ADHD himself but also has never used medication to treat it, Dr. Archer understands the condition from a unique standpoint. Armed with new science and research, he hopes to generate public interest and even debate with his positive message as he guides the millions of people with ADHD worldwide toward a whole new appreciation of their many strengths and full innate potential.

©2015 Dale Archer, MD (P)2015 Gildan Media LLC

Wow!!! what a tool kit this book offers.

You want to get an understanding of ADHD. This book will help you find hidden keys of ADHD, that will unlock your stuck life. It truly helped me understand my self, my struggle's and my potential.
There are so many things I wish I knew 9 years ago when I found out I had it.

Encouraging.

Found this book to be very encouraging. It helps to make your adhd traits a strength and not a weakness.

Great tool!

Great for adults and kids who have yet to harness their ADHD strengths. Also a great tool for understanding those who have these challenges. The book provides inspiration and hope.

Insightful and encouraging

I struggled with ADHD symptoms in grade school especially. There is some relief in high school when I had a little more freedom to choose subjects that interest of me. And then in college, for the first time in my life, I become an honor student. Now in the middle of my career, I find myself in a job that feels as restrictive and suffocating as grade school, and I’m miserable. The author’s view of ADHD closely aligns to my own personal experiences and feelings. For the first time I feel like I am understood. And as I see my son having similar struggles it helps me to better understand him, and why my non-ADHD wife struggles with both of us. Thank you!

Spot on

To those of you questioning yourself about ADHD, or those of you living with someone you know has, or may have ADHD, this is a must read. It not only shows our strengths, but how to fix that dad gum sink before the wife gets home. I swear every time I turn on the tv it's more bad news. You know what I mean, if you were him why would you leave?? Post apocalyptic stories are my favorite.....wait.....sorry. Read the book!!!

The a.d.d. Advantage is a game changer!

Struggled all my life, knowing I was wired “different, so many answers here. Not only that, I could understand the book!
One of the handful of books I’ve ever finished!
I have recently uncovered a passion for building and designing guitars and this is the kick in the pants I needed!

Full of Hope

This is written as if ADHD is not a crutch to be leaned on but rather a character trait that should be embraced and mastered. He takes a hard stance against the use of adhd medication and offers up alternative methods of treatment. At no point do I ever feel like ADHD is minimized, instead it is brought into the light and made into something I’m not just content having but that I am excited to have. Turn the playback speed up to hold your attention and listen away.

Non-med tactics for success

I’m in my 40s, I’m accomplished, and only recently discovered I’ve had ADHD the whole time. Before listening to Maté’s “Scattered Minds,” which a friend knowingly recommended, I had no idea. But it explained so many of my challenges in childhood and my present traits. (It’s pretty obvious that my dad has it, too.) Anyway, since I found a way to be successful at work I wanted to see what other strategies I could leverage. Archer’s “the ADHD Advantage” didn’t disappoint with all his tool kits to make the best of how the ADHD brain works.

Basically, he recommends finding ways to use hyper-focus as much as you can by only working on things you are passionate about and finding or making a job that encourages it. Exercise. Find partners that complement you, in business and romance. Exercise. Write things down, often in lists. Oh yeah, when in doubt, exercise.

I would have liked to see more tools for ADHD’s impulsivity, hot but short temper, and mood swings. But I liked the hopeful perspective and the tool kits.

Phenomenally Helpful!

Being diagnosed as an adult, the notion of being neurodivergent put me into a depressed state. On the one hand it explained so much about my life thus far, but It seemed that all the ADHD topic discussions were about “managing” my problem brain. And then when medication after medication caused different health problems, I went further into depression. The ADHD Advantage has given me clarity that all this time I had been trying to change myself to suit the world’s perception of success rather than realizing that I am successful when I am happy and engaged - which absolutely requires novelty for me!

Squirrel!

insightful and enlightening. I found myself wondering who wrote this book about me, or so it seemed. Might be a good listen for parents of ADHDers as well.