As someone with ADHD who has done what I consider to be quite a lot of creative work, the equation seems to be the exact opposite for me. Execution is dull and

As someone with ADHD who has done what I consider to be quite a lot of creative work, the equation seems to be the exact opposite for me. Execution is dull and predictable, plus my brain just doesn’t care about the good/bad consequences unless they are both significant and imminent. On the other hand, during exploration I’m like a firecracker on speed and can lose hours going down rabbit holes experimenting and chasing different ideas. My brain is very happy in this state with a constant flow of dopamine but before my diagnosis, I struggled to ever finish anything of significance. For the past couple of years since though (and with the help of medication which ironically is a kind of “slow release amphetamine” as far as I understand, so quietens my brain’s constant desire for stimulation), I’ve finally been able to see a whole serious of large tasks through to completion over the course of a much longer project than I’ve ever really been able to do before. So I guess what the author describes may well be the root of why people sometimes refer to ADHD being a “superpower” if neurotypicals tend to struggle so much with the bits that come naturally to us…