I work with a number of clients who’ve received diagnoses of ADHD at some point in their lives. As you may know, there’s some evidence that suggests a link between ADHD and entrepreneurial inclination, so this isn’t too surprising.
What I find striking is that many of these clients display difficulty in regulating their emotions. Some recent research indicates that this is actually one of the central features of ADHD.
Read MoreThis all-too-common pattern is a distortion of high performance. It’s so close to what makes a truly remarkable career, and yet it suffers from a kind of exaggeration - toil instead of work, exhaustion instead of rest.
A system like this is maddening for many reasons, not the least of which is that its results are nowhere near on par with the effort exerted.
Perhaps we can take a look at how to get out of this vicious circle…
Read MoreA huge reason we entrepreneurs drive ourselves to overwork is because we get lost in abstract ideas. If we keep it concrete, however, we have a much easier time - and almost certainly accomplish more of what matters with less effort.
Let me explain.
Read MorePeople will go to great lengths to distort their contact with reality.
It is always the result of a compensation for insecurity.
If we take a page from the existentialists, we’ll stick as closely as we can to the concrete details of our lives, rather than go through the mental acrobatics of abstractions. The added bonus is that we strip away the should’s, ought’s and expectations.
Read MoreIt only took us 400 years, but we’re finally remembering that the body is the foundation of our cognitive function, meaning that our mental health and performance is developed from the bottom up.
Perhaps more significant: the way that you carry yourself (that is, what you do with the body - how you sit, stand, walk, and talk) shapes how other people treat you. A feedback loop is quickly established, in which your behavior influences theirs, influencing how you feel, influencing how you behave, which influences how they…on and on.
Read MoreThe vast majority of tension that people experience in their bodies comes down to alignment (interpreted in two different ways).
The first is likely more familiar.
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