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ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction--from Childhood through Adulthood Hardcover – January 12, 2021

by Edward M. Hallowell M.D. (Author), John J. Ratey M.D. (Author)

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A revolutionary new approach to ADD/ADHD featuring cutting-edge research and strategies to help readers thrive, by the bestselling authors of the seminal books Driven to Distraction and Delivered from Distraction

“An inspired road map for living with a distractible brain . . . If you or your child suffer from ADHD, this book should be on your shelf. It will give you courage and hope.”—Michael Thompson, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling co-author of Raising Cain

World-renowned authors Dr. Edward M. Hallowell and Dr. John J. Ratey literally “wrote the book” on ADD/ADHD more than two decades ago. Their bestseller, Driven to Distraction, largely introduced this diagnosis to the public and sold more than a million copies along the way.

Now, most people have heard of ADHD and know someone who may have it. But lost in the discussion of both childhood and adult diagnosis of ADHD is the potential upside: Many hugely successful entrepreneurs and highly creative people attribute their achievements to ADHD. Also unknown to most are the recent research developments, including innovations that give a clearer understanding of the ADHD brain in action. In ADHD 2.0, Drs. Hallowell and Ratey, both of whom have this “variable attention trait,” draw on the latest science to provide both parents and adults with ADHD a plan for minimizing the downside and maximizing the benefits of ADHD at any age. They offer an arsenal of new strategies and lifestyle hacks for thriving with ADHD, including

• Find the right kind of difficult. Use these behavior assessments to discover the work, activity, or creative outlet best suited to an individual’s unique strengths.
• Reimagine environment. What specific elements to look for—at home, at school, or in the workplace—to enhance the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit inherent in the ADHD mind.
• Embrace innate neurological tendencies. Take advantage of new findings about the brain’s default mode network and cerebellum, which confer major benefits for people with ADHD.
• Tap into the healing power of connection. Tips for establishing and maintaining positive connection “the other Vitamind C” and the best antidote to the negativity that plagues so many people with ADHD.
• Consider medication. Gets the facts about the underlying chemistry, side effects, and proven benefits of all the pharmaceutical options.

As inspiring as it is practical, ADHD 2.0 will help you tap into the power of this mercurial condition and find the key that unlocks potential.

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“Hallowell writes with clarity and humanity. . . . [ADHD 2.0] is a message of hope . . . a remarkably clear, personable, digestible and useful book.”—Dr. Lloyd Sederer, Psychology Today

“Beautifully written, ADHD 2.0 is an inspired road map for living with a distractible brain. Two psychiatrists who have ADHD themselves combine the most recent brain science with humor, stories, and deep wisdom about how to manage your fluctuating attention. If you or your child suffer from ADHD, this book should be on your shelf. It will give you courage and hope.”—Michael Thompson, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling co-author of Raising Cain

“Infinitely validating, effortlessly funny, and staggeringly insightful . . . This book will save lives.”—Jessica McCabe, creator/host of How to ADHD

“I love the optimism and hope this timely book offers.. . . . Drs. Hallowell and Ratey draw upon the latest neuroscience as well as other key research fields to offer a comprehensive and helpful approach to living fully and happily with ADHD. . . . Highly recommended.”—Peter S. Jensen, M.D., founder, The REACH Institute

“As both a clinician and someone with ADHD, I found this book to be a reassuring masterpiece. Drs. Hallowell and Ratey combine evidence-based practice and research to help those with ADHD live a fulfilled and happy life. I will recommend it to my patients.”—Kristin Seymour, M.S.N., R.N., ADHD coach

“With knowledge and empathy, Drs. Hallowell and Ratey have written a book that draws on the latest scientific advances and their decades of clinical experience. Most important, ADHD 2.0 provides hope; it is a must-read for anyone who has or loves a person with this very common condition.”—Harold S. Koplewicz, M.D., president and medical director, Child Mind Institute, and author of The Scaffold Effect

“This information-packed guide is a must-have for anyone dealing with ADHD.”—Publishers Weekly

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Edward Hallowell, M.D., is a board-certified child and adult psychiatrist, a world-renowned keynote speaker, and the New York Times bestselling author or co-author of more than twenty books, including Driven to Distraction (with John J. Ratey), which sparked a revolution in our understanding of ADHD. A graduate of Harvard College and Tulane Medical School, Dr. Hallowell was a Harvard Medical School faculty member for twenty-one years. A regular columnist for ADDitude magazine, he is also the host of the weekly podcast Distraction. He is the founder of The Hallowell Centers in Boston MetroWest, New York City, San Francisco, and Seattle. He lives in the Boston area with his wife and their three children.

John J. Ratey, M.D. is a clinical professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He is the author or co-author of numerous bestselling and groundbreaking books, including Spark, Driven to Distraction, and A User’s Guide to the Brain. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Chapter 1

A Spectrum of Traits

Who are we, the people who have ADHD?

We are the problem kid who drives his parents crazy by being totally disorganized, unable to follow through on anything, incapable of cleaning up a room, or washing dishes, or performing just about any assigned task; the one who is forever interrupting, making excuses for work not done, and generally functioning far below potential in most areas. We are the kid who gets daily lectures on how we’re squandering our talent, wasting the golden opportunity that our innate ability gives us to do well, and failing to make good use of all that our parents have provided.

We are also sometimes the talented executive who keeps falling short due to missed deadlines, forgotten obligations, social faux pas, and blown opportunities. Too often we are the addicts, the misfits, the unemployed, and the criminals who are just one diagnosis and treatment plan away from turning it all around. We are the people Marlon Brando spoke for in the classic 1954 film On the Waterfront when he said, “I coulda been a contender.” So many of us coulda been contenders, and shoulda been for sure.

But then, we can also make good. Can we ever! We are the seemingly tuned-out meeting participant who comes out of nowhere to provide the fresh idea that saves the day. Frequently, we are the “underachieving” child whose talent blooms with the right kind of help and finds incredible success after a checkered educational record. We are the contenders and the winners.

We are also imaginative and dynamic teachers, preachers, circus clowns, and stand-up comics, Navy SEALs or Army Rangers, inventors, tinkerers, and trend setters. Among us there are self-made millionaires and billionaires; Pulitzer and Nobel prize winners; Academy, Tony, Emmy, and Grammy award winners; topflight trial attorneys, brain surgeons, traders on the commodities exchange, and investment bankers. And we are often entrepreneurs. We are entrepreneurs ourselves, and the great majority of the adult patients we see for ADHD are or aspire to be entrepreneurs too. The owner and operator of an entrepreneurial support company called Strategic Coach, a man named Dan Sullivan (who also has ADHD!), estimates that at least 50 percent of his clients have ADHD as well.

Because people with ADHD don’t look any different from everyone else, our condition is invisible. But if you were to climb up into our heads, you’d discover quite a different landscape. You’d find ideas firing around like kernels in a popcorn machine: ideas coming rat-a-tat fast, and on no discernable schedule. Ideas coming in spontaneous, erratic bursts. And because we can’t turn this particular popcorn machine off, we are often unable to stop the idea generation at night; our minds never seem to rest.

Indeed, our minds are here and there and everywhere—all at once—which sometimes manifests as appearing to be somewhere else, in some dreamy state. And that means we often miss the proverbial (or literal!) boat. But then maybe we build an airplane or grab a pogo stick instead. We tune out in the middle of a job interview and don’t get the job, but perhaps we see a poster hanging in the human resources waiting room that sparks a new idea that leads us to a patented invention. We offend people by forgetting names and promises, but we make good by understanding what nobody else has picked up on. We shoot ourselves in the foot, only, on the spot, to devise a painless method to remove the bullet. The great mathematician Alan Turing summed us up when he said, “Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.” That sums us up perfectly.

Which is to say that ADHD is a far richer, more complicated, paradoxical, dangerous, but also potentially advantageous state of being than the oversimplified version most of the general public takes it to be or than even the detailed diagnostic criteria would have you believe. “ADHD” is a term that describes a way of being in the world. It is neither entirely a disorder nor entirely an asset. It is an array of traits specific to a unique kind of mind. It can become a distinct advantage or an abiding curse, depending on how a person manages it.

The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet

As different as ADHD can be from person to person, there are several qualities that seem nearly universal to people with it. Distractibility, impulsivity, and hyperactivity are the classic descriptors, but they find what we think are richer and more apt counterparts in Shakespeare’s musing about “the lunatic, the lover, and the poet.”

Having ADHD doesn’t mean you’re crazy, so admittedly “lunatic” may be too strong a word. But risk taking and irrational thinking go hand in hand with ADHD behavior. We like irrational. We’re at home in uncertainty. We’re at ease where others are anxious. We’re relaxed not knowing where we are or what direction we’re headed in. A common lament we hear from parents of teens with ADHD makes the point: “What was he thinking? He must have lost his mind!” Likewise the spouse who asks us, “Why does he keep doing the same stupid thing over and over again? Isn’t that the definition of insanity?”

Some people call this being a nonconformist, but that term misses the point. We don’t choose not to conform. We don’t even notice what the standard we’re not conforming to is!

People with ADHD are lovers in the sense that they tend to have unbridled optimism. We never met a deal we didn’t like, an opportunity we didn’t want to pursue, a chance we didn’t want to take. We get carried away. We see limitless possibilities where others see just the limits. The lover has trouble holding back, and not holding back is a major part of what it means to have ADHD.

Being a poet might best be defined with another trio of descriptors: creative, dreamy, and sometimes brooding.

“Creativity,” as we use the term in connection with ADHD, designates an innate ability, desire, and irrepressible urge to plunge one’s imagination regularly and deeply into life—into a project, an idea, a piece of music, a sandcastle. Indeed, people with ADHD feel an abiding need—an omnipresent itch—to create something. It’s with us all the time, this unnamed appetite, whether we understand what it is or not; the act of creation offers the magnet’s north pole to our south and clicks us together. It captivates us, plants us in the present, and sets us transfixed within the creative act, whatever it might happen to be.

Even awake we’re dreaming, always creating, always searching for some mud pie to turn into pumpkin apple chiffon. Our imagination fuels our curiosity to find out what that noise was, or what was under the rock, or why the petri dish looks different from when we left it. If we weren’t so dreamy and curious we could stay on track and never get distracted. But we do investigate the noise, the soil, the petri dish. This is why the word “deficit” in the name of our condition is such a misnomer. In fact, we do not suffer from a deficit of attention. Just the opposite. We’ve got an overabundance of attention, more attention than we can cope with; our constant challenge is to control it.

As for brooding, this is the special blessing and the bitter curse of ADHD. You have a vision. Maybe you’ve come up with a novel technology for making an unbeatable knife sharpener. Or maybe you think you have the plot to the perfect novel. Whatever your vision, you go at it like you never have before.

But then, what you’ve created . . . disappoints. It’s not just disappointing, but suddenly you feel it’s terrible, awful, the worst ever, and you plunge into despair. Then, just as unexpectedly, out of nowhere the vision comes back. You get reinspired. You can see it, you want it, you can’t resist. You have to try again. Off you go—dreaming and creating and probably brooding again too.

Like all three characters—the lunatic, the lover, and the poet—we have a pronounced intolerance of boredom; boredom is our kryptonite. The second that we experience boredom—which you might think of as a lack of stimulation—we reflexively, instantaneously, automatically and without conscious thought seek stimulation. We don’t care what it is, we just have to address the mental emergency—the brain pain—that boredom sets off. Like mental EMTs, we swing into action. We might pick a fight to create a bit of stimulation; we might go shopping online with manic abandon; we might rob a bank; we might snort cocaine—or we might invent the best widget the world has ever seen or come up with the solution to what’s keeping our business from taking off.

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Edward (Ned) Hallowell, M.D. is a board-certified child and adult psychiatrist and world authority on ADHD. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Tulane Medical School, and was a Harvard Medical School faculty member for 21 years. He is the Founder of The Hallowell ADHD Centers in Boston MetroWest, New York City, San Francisco, Palo Alto and Seattle.
He has spent the past four decades helping thousands of adults and children live happy and productive lives through his strength-based approach to neurodiversity, and has ADHD and dyslexia himself.
Dr Hallowell is a New York Times bestselling author and has written 20 books on multiple psychological topics. The groundbreaking Distraction series, which began with Driven to Distraction, co-authored with Dr John Ratey in 1994, sparked a revolution in understanding of ADHD.
Having successfully managed both ADHD and dyslexia himself, he has famously said, “I don’t treat disabilities; I help unwrap gift!” When “disabilities” are seen instead by their mirror traits, these attributes can be channeled toward turbo-charged success. His Hallowell Centers offer comprehensive mental health diagnostic and treatment services to patients and their families.
Dr. Hallowell is the host of his new podcast called Dr. Hallowell’s Wonderful World of different where he celebrates the world of different in its many and varied forms. In celebrating the many differences that adorn humanity, he hopes to break down barriers of stigma and misunderstanding and show how all of us benefit from the differences between us.
Dr Hallowell has been featured on 20/20, 60 Minutes, Oprah, PBS, CNN, The Today Show, Dateline, Good Morning America, The New York Times, USA Today, Newsweek, Time Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe and many more. He is a regular columnist for ADDitude Magazine.
Dr. Hallowell’s practices his trademark strength-based approach and always comes across as genuine, humorous, transparent and passionate whether he is practicing working with clients in the Hallowell Centers or addressing a wide range of topics in his writings and public appearances.
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An Excellent Resource for ADHD

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2024

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I gave this book five stars ⭐️, because it is short, but well written. It is an excellent source for those who are neuro divergent. It’s main focus is on a strength based treatment plan that emphasizes essentials, such as exercise and nutrition, but also includes medications when necessary. It also lists and illustrates the many gifts of those with ADHD. Read this book!

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Helped not only understand more about ADHD but also offered several different tool options to help you manage or find success in ADHD

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Full Of Help And Hope

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After literally writing THE book on ADD/ADHD in the 1990s, “Driven To Distraction”, Dr. Hallowell and Dr. Ratey return with new insights and information accumulated over the past quarter century.

While some (or even a lot) of this may be familiar to anyone diagnosed and living with ADHD (ADD is now a subtype of ADHD called Inattentive ADHD), the authors do a great job of making the data and treatments presented accessible and relatable, likely due in no small part to both having ADHD themselves. The tone of the book is conversational and yet informative, serious but also hopeful. They fully acknowledge how challenging, harmful, and disruptive ADHD can be, but offer reassurances that there are methods and strategies to deal with it and even improve quality of life, all backed up with data and anecdotes.

I look forward to implementing some of their suggestions in my own life.

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Caroline Danda

My favorite book or understanding ADHD. A must-read.

Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2023

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This is my go-to book I recommend when anyone is diagnosed with ADHD. The authors explain the brain-science behind many of the characteristics and actions of people with ADHD in a way that is relatable and easy-to-understand. I really appreciate the focus, not on the deficits, but on the strengths and how to harness the way your brain works. This book is particularly helpful for parents of kids with ADHD so they can better understand their children and support their growth in a positive way.

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Jules S

Thrilled with this new book!

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I've been an ADHD Coach for over two decades and follow the work of the 'greats' in this vertical and these authors are two of those greats. This book is nearly 20% citations - meaning there is a ton of research behind all of the content. That means a lot to me as a professional working with adults with ADHD. It was well written, concise, and after the copious notes I took, I have additional tools to help my clients with. I was most pleased to read so much of what I already do was validated within these pages. Thank you Ned and John for your latest work to help so many.

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Interesting cutting edge information

Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2024

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Other than glossing over the ABA, of which I do not approve, it’s a great book with lots of good information about practical ways to understand, and minimize the effects of ADHD

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Earnest Barnes

Comprehensive… there is light at the end of the tunnel.

Reviewed in the United States on April 8, 2023

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I first bought the audiobook. The knowledge I heard so so comprehensive compared to any explanation I’ve ever received. I’m 38 and I was officially diagnosed when I was 8 with combined. I did well in the Marine Corps because well, morning PT everyday for more than a decade… after, life as a normal adult, I’ve struggled until now. I feel confident to set a treatment plan with my providers that includes exercise/balance exercise, and diet and without going to pay their refereed colleagues money... How to manage 50 tabs open at once is my first challenge. 10/10. Would recommend to any ADHDer struggling to understand the basics of how your brain works so you can build a plan and more forward. All of the information beyond their recommendation for their colleagues paid treatment options are mostly available online for free with a little scientific research.

This book breaks it down so well, I bought the paperback as well so I may have a physical reference to go back to. For some reason this is not available in ebook.

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A lot of simple solutions applicable in real life. My husband (37) has VAST and it worked for him well

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Wonderful book ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Reviewed in Canada on August 9, 2023

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As an ADHD mother to an ADHD child and as a retired high school teacher, I certainly recommend this reading to any person connected to ADHD.
Within the several books written on the subject, this one by DR. Hallowell and DR. Ratey, shines a new light of hope and optimism for the many children and adults struggling with this challenging condition.
Finally, it doesn’t have to be a painful challenge anymore, but a positive one that can bring a good ending.

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I love The Refreshing Take on ADHD: Uncovering Strengths

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 22, 2023

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ADHD 2.0 by Dr. Edward M. Hallowell and Dr. John J. Ratey is a groundbreaking book that offers an insightful and updated perspective on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). The authors, both renowned experts in the field and diagnosed with ADHD themselves, present a compelling blend of scientific research and personal anecdotes. They explore the latest developments in neuroscience and share practical strategies for managing ADHD. The book's strength lies in its positive approach, viewing ADHD not just as a disorder but as a unique set of brain-based traits that, if harnessed correctly, can lead to remarkable achievements and creativity. I love the positive spin on this and found the sections on diet, exercise and lifestyle particularly helpful.

ADHD 2.0 is an essential read for individuals with ADHD, their loved ones, and professionals in the field. It combines scientific rigour with empathetic understanding, making it a valuable resource that shines a hopeful light on living with ADHD.

I love its comprehensive coverage, engaging narrative, and practical approach to a complex topic. A great update on Driven to Distraction

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Shantanu K

A must read on ADHD

Reviewed in India on October 27, 2023

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ADHD 2.0 is the revised version of the classic Driven to distraction. Written by Dr Hallowell and Dr Ratey, of which both have ADHD. It provides practical insights for tackling ADHD with the lastest findings and research. A must read for those with ADHD or their close ones.

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Als ich anfing, das Buch zu lesen, dachte ich, dass das Buch über mich geht. 😂
Es ist hervorragend gestaltet und bringt das Beste aus ADHS heraus, wie man es verbessern und im Leben anwenden kann, sowie wie man die negativen Aspekte von ADHS im Leben reduzieren kann.
Es enthält auch Erklärungen aus wissenschaftlicher Sicht.
Meine Empfehlungen!!!

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veronica

Lectura obligatoria para todo paciente con TDAH

Reviewed in Spain on June 18, 2021

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Excelente libro, ambos autores de los mejores especialistas en TDAH principalmente por su enfoque positivo sobre el TDAH empoderando con el conocimiento y trabajando las dificultades así como reforzando los aspectos positivos del TDAH porque bien trabajado puede ser el mejor atributo aunque de lo contrario puede ocasionar muchas dificultades.

También recomiendo seguir el podcast del Dr Hallowell: Distraction

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