ADHD VIRTUAL ENTREPRENEUR

As a person with ADHD, you probably take for granted that multi-tasking is the norm. With ADHD, the brain is working on overdrive, jumping from one thing to the next (whether it gets finished or not is a topic for another day). Add to it we live in a society, which as a whole, seems to demand that we engage in more than one activity at a time; reading emails while on the phone, preparing the mailings while giving instructions to an employee, working on two projects at seemingly one time. Yet, most people with ADHD find that multi-tasking just isn’t helpful.

There’s now a lot of data to back up this up.The published work of Drs. Rubinstein, Meyer, and Evans (2001), (http://www.apa.org/releases/multitasking.html) indicates that humans, in general, are actually less productive when we multi-task and here’s why. Read the rest of this entry »