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Getting officially evaluated and diagnosed with ADHD two years ago (at age 39). Not a single moment but gave me a framework, tools, and vocabulary to understan
by atonse 4y ago
Getting officially evaluated and diagnosed with ADHD two years ago (at age 39).
Not a single moment but gave me a framework, tools, and vocabulary to understand my various issues and come up with treatments/solutions.
When I was 19 until my mid 20s, I was often the youngest guy in many corporate settings, and really shining. That was me getting by on raw talent. But to move further you also have to couple that with executive function. And that’s where I started to peak and not grow more. So I was “stuck” in individual contributor roles, still succeeding on raw talent but that doesn’t scale. This helped me break out of that pretty easily and have a different outlook.
I’m in a totally different place now. (Not to mention, more often the oldest guy in the room!!)
- onemoresoop 4y agoPlease expand on your trajectory and how it changed when you got diagnosed. I'm not diagnosed but I definitely have some traits and have similarly gotten stuck and pushed through multiple times and reinvented myself in different ways but as I get older the energy to do so becomes hard to summon up.
- atemerev 4y agoI was diagnosed 9 years ago, but still struggling in individual contributor roles. What did you do to break the cycle and start scaling up?