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    ADHD: A Hunter in a Farmer's World
    ADHD: A Hunter in a Farmer's World
    ADHD: A Hunter in a Farmer's World
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    ADHD: A Hunter in a Farmer's World

    Written by Thom Hartmann and Michael Popkin

    Narrated by Robin Douglas

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    A newly revised and updated edition of the classic guide to reframing our view of ADHD and embracing its benefits

    • Explains that people with ADHD are not disordered or dysfunctional, but simply “hunters in a farmer’s world”--possessing a unique mental skill set that would have allowed them to thrive in a hunter-gatherer society

    • Offers concrete non-drug methods and practices to help hunters--and their parents, teachers, and managers--embrace their differences, nurture creativity, and find success in school, at work, and at home

    • Reveals how some of the world’s most successful people can be labeled as ADHD hunters, including Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, and Andrew Carnegie

    With 10 percent of the Western world’s children suspected of having Attention Deficit Disorder, or ADHD, and a growing number of adults self-diagnosing after decades of struggle, the question must be raised: How could Nature make such a “mistake”?

    In this updated edition of his groundbreaking classic, Thom Hartmann explains that people with ADHD are not abnormal, disordered, or dysfunctional, but simply “hunters in a farmer’s world.” Often highly creative and single-minded in pursuit of a self-chosen goal, those with ADHD symptoms possess a unique mental skill set that would have allowed them to thrive in a hunter-gatherer society. As hunters, they would have been constantly scanning their environment, looking for food or threats (distractibility); they’d have to act without hesitation (impulsivity); and they’d have to love the high-stimulation and risk-filled environment of the hunting field. With our structured public schools, office workplaces, and factories those who inherit a surplus of “hunter skills” are often left frustrated in a world that doesn’t understand or support them.

    As Hartmann shows, by reframing our view of ADHD, we can begin to see it not as a disorder, but as simply a difference and, in some ways, an advantage. He reveals how some of the world’s most successful people can be labeled as ADHD hunters and offers concrete non-drug methods and practices to help hunters--and their parents, teachers, and managers--embrace their differences, nurture creativity, and find success in school, at work, and at home. Providing a supportive “survival” guide to help fine tune your natural skill set, rather than suppress it, Hartmann shows that each mind--whether hunter, farmer, or somewhere in between--has value and great potential waiting to be tapped.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInner Traditions Audio
    Release dateOct 29, 2019
    ISBN9781644111468
    Author

    Thom Hartmann

    Thom Hartmann is the host of the nationally and internationally syndicated talkshow The Thom Hartmann Program and the TV show The Big Picture on the Free Speech TV network. He is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of 24 books, including Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception, ADHD and the Edison Gene, and The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, which inspired Leonardo DiCaprio’s film The 11th Hour. A former psychotherapist and founder of the Hunter School, a residential and day school for children with ADHD, he lives in Washington, D.C.

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    • 3/5
      Interesting point of view, but not sure I believe it

      2 people found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This was a very easy to digest book as the framework of hunters and farmers was cleverly used to highlight neurodivergence

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Good stuff there, a must read, Illuminating and mind changing.
    • 5/5
      A very insightful book that thoroughly explores the origins and stigma attached to ADD and ADHD. I wish I had read this a long time ago; it really helps to understand those who struggle to cope in todays strange world.
    • 2/5
      This just isn't accurate nor is it helpful. It is woo woo and misassociates things that are true with ADHD. My ADHD is not helped by thinking I am a hunter in an agricultural society. It was written decades ago and the information is very dated, incorrect and incomplete.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 1/5
      The author is a fraud. He didn't mention that Dr. Benjamin Feingold's theory was not proven by studies performed by the scientific community. (The diet-hyperactivity theory)

      The author is also apparently clueless about medicine, me being a medical physician myself. i found his claims in the field of medicine when he spoke about dermatological conditions to be completely rubbish, full of misinformation.

      The whole book is basically about a theory that claims that ADHD is the genetic remnant of hunters in our time.
      This theory and his NLP approach have both been called out by the scientific community as pseudoscience.

      I mean, for God's sake, his degree is in freaking Herbology and electrical engineering.

      This book is all about conspiracy theory.
      It was a total waste of time.

      2 people found this helpful