Resources

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Quiz Questions - Relates to #4

1. How often do you have difficulty sustaining your attention while doing something for work, school, a hobby, or fun activity (e.g. remaining focused during lectures, lengthy reading or conversations)?
2. How often are you easily distracted by external stimuli, like something in your environment or unrelated thoughts?
3. How often do you avoid, dislike, or are reluctant to engage in tasks that require sustained mental effort or thought?
4. How often do you have trouble listening to someone, even when they are speaking directly to you — like your mind is somewhere else?
5. How often do you have difficulty in organizing an activity or task needing to get done (e.g., poor time management, fails to meet deadlines, difficulty managing sequential tasks)?
6. How often do you fail to give close attention to details, or make careless mistakes in things such as schoolwork, at work, or during other activities?
7. How often do you forget to do something you do all the time, such as missing an appointment or paying a bill?
8. How often do you lose, misplace or damage something that's necessary in order to get things done (e.g., your phone, eyeglasses, paperwork, wallet, keys, etc.)?
9. How often do you have trouble following through on instructions, or failing to finish schoolwork, chores, or duties in the workplace (e.g., you start a task but quickly lose focus and are easily sidetracked)?
10. How often are you unable to play or engage in leisurely activities quietly?
11. How often do you have difficulty waiting your turn, such as while waiting in line?
12. How often do you feel like you're "on the go," acting as if you're "driven by a motor" (e.g., you're unable to be or uncomfortable being still for an extended period of time, such as in a restaurant or a meeting)?
13. How often do you leave your seat in situations when remaining seated is expected (e.g., leaving your place in the office or workplace)?
14. How often do you blurt out an answer before a question has been completed (e.g., completing another person's sentence or can't wait your turn in a conversation)?
15. How often do you feel restless -- like you want to get out and do something?
16. How often do you fidget with or tap your hands or feet, or squirm in your seat?
17. How often do find yourself talking excessively?
18. How often do you interrupt or intrude on others, such as butting into their conversation or taking over what others are doing?

Scoring There are 4 options for response

Never (0 points) Rarely (1 points) Sometimes (2 points) Often (3 points)

Whichever they answer, the scores get tallied together. Then we compare that score to this key and give them a result:

Which looks like this:

The subscales are scored differently. The first 9 questions give you the Inattention Subscale. The second 9 questions give you the Hyperactivity/Impulsiveness subscale.

Scored on this key:

Subscales: 20 & Up - High 13 - 19 - Moderate 0 - 12 - Low

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Results page - Relates to #7

1 of 3 options shows on screen, depending on test results

Primarily Hyperactive-Impulsive Type ADHD

You’re a firecracker. Can’t sit still. You interrupt others, blurt out answers, and struggle with self-control. Your mouth, mind or legs work overtime. Often simultaneously.

Your potential superpower: Fluid reasoning. You can make bigger jumps with less info.

Your everyday needs: You are explosive. Build funnels that channel that energy into a tight beam.

Primarily Inattentive Type ADHD

You’re a dreamer. Appear bored, forgetful and easily distracted. What you need is for something to grip your attention.

Your potential superpower: Hyperfocus.

Your everyday needs: Getting started. You’re slow off the mark. Build funnels that pull you into the right direction.

Combined Type ADHD

You’ve got the best of both worlds, and all of its challenges.

You’re a firecracker and a dreamer. Can’t sit still. You interrupt others, blurt out answers, and struggle with self-control. Your mouth, mind or legs work overtime. Appear bored, forgetful and easily distracted. What you need is for something to grip your attention.

Your potential superpower: High energy creative output. Once you lock in you keep on going. Problem solving at an impressive rate.

Your everyday needs: Deep, deep structure. You’re slow on some days and explosive on others. You need systems that get you going and keep you from chasing squirrels.

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Superpower article - Relates to #10

1. What is Hyper focus? (number not in title)

Hyper focus is an intense form of mental concentration or visualization on a subject, topic, or task. Hype rfocus may bear a relationship to flow. In some circumstances, both flow and hyper focus can be an aid to achievement, but in other circumstances or situations it could be a liability. It is necessary to discover one's triggers so as to better aim the behaviour.

In this mini course you will learn about triggers:

• High and clear consequences
• Condensed feedback loops
• Rich environment
• Clear communication
• Clear and detailed goals

The most vital aspect is individualization and exploration. Your set of triggers are unique to you.

Once discovered you'll be able to focus for hours on productive and useful material, often at a higher learning rate.

Once aimed, your productivity should see an increase. Discovering them is the first step to a productive and thriving life.

2. Procrastination (number not in title)

We can day dream like no ones business.

This is actually the dual side of the learning process.

Learning is the act of creating new neural connections. Connections also used in creativity.

When we're creative or learn, we first intensely focus on the available information.

This is the focused phase.

After that we need time to let things fall into place, new connections to form and strengthens and ideas to bubble to the surface.

That's the diffuse phase. You know it when you have a great idea in the shower, after you've given up solving a damn hard problem.

The mind works in mysterious ways.

Often we have to let ourselves enjoy the structured down time.

As ADHD people we may have such poor productivity track records that any down time feels like a waste.

When we learn to work we have to learn to relax. To avoid burnout and to let our brain be creative.

Just set a timer. Go enjoy your break. And comeback!

3. Category Freedom (number not in title)

When we see a thing we see it as if seeing it for the first time.

No matter how many times we've seen it.

It's connected to low latent inhibition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyuhtmr36cs

Most people when they see a thing, their brain registers it, and next time they see it, its less shiny.

Our don't. It's why we can listen to the same song 3.000 times, or watch the same movie, or go down the same rabbit hole.

It's also why we reexamine the same object till new ways of looking at it emerge.

It's why we look at things till they REALLY shine through and then we obsessively hyper-focus.

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Everyday article - Relates to #10

1. What are pomodoros? (number is not in title)

Many people with ADHD suffer from time blindness. We have difficulty estimating how long something has, or will, take. We can easily go down rabbit holes ignoring pressing tasks, or have trouble starting, fearing that we see no end.

The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method developed by Francesco Cirillo in the late 1980s. The technique uses a timer to break down work into 25 minutes intervals, separated by short breaks. Each interval is known as a pomodoro, from the Italian word for 'tomato'.

The concept was recently popularized by James Clear in his recent best seller. Atomic Habits.

Pomodoros short circuit our time blindness, and help us get started.

You can start using this right now. Set a timer for 25 minutes on your phone, and return to the lessons in this app. Read and apply till it goes off. Focusing fully on the task at hand, ignoring all distractions.

When it buzzes, go nuts. Walk about, drink water, do a handstand. Leave the lesson. 5 minutes later, you’ll traditionally return.

Pomodoros have been shown to be particularly great for tracking progress.

You start by doing 1. Then after a few weeks you can do 4 sessions of 25 minutes, with 5 minute breaks before needing a longer break.

For those of us with time blindness we often forget how far we’ve progressed. Pomodoros help us get started and keep going.

In this lesson you’ll learn how to setup your own strategy for growing your focus stamina by using pomodoros.

2. Morning Routine (number is not in title)

The right start to the day sets you up for success. Even if you don't feel like it, you can pull yourself out of bed and into action with the right series of steps.

And they are incredibly simple. Setup a countdown that takes you from groggy sleep monster, to fresh and at em.

To start, get your alarm away from your bed so that you have to walk to switch it off. Then go straight to splashing your face with water so that you're wide awake. After that throw 4 eggs in the frying pan. Fat and protein are excellence brain food and help stabilize your mood during the day. Will they're frying sit on a comfy chair, straight back, count your breaths on the in and out, to a 100. Congrats you've just meditated! Eat the now ready eggs and choose a book to read. Non fiction action info or fiction for better understanding of people. Read for 10 pages. Shower and run out the door.

You're all set to take on the world.

3. A place for everything and everything in its place (Number not in title)

Often people with ADHD have less effective short term memory (called working memory). Don't fret, we make up for it with awesome skills.

With these easy steps you'll make sure to minimize the fallout and keep your surroundings happy.

1. find a fruit bowl. put all your keys, wallet, coins, cards, pens, journal etc any daily items in there
2. they go nowhere but there.
3. find a place for your shoes, shirts, belts etc.
4. build, buy or borrow cupboard space as needed. it doesn't have to be perfect. you can optimize later.
5. find a space for anything that you see in a quick scan

This will free up your mind and conscience and make life infinitely better.

Whenever you're stuck start tidying up and putting things in their place and you'll see how quickly your thoughts fall into place too.

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ADHD Basic Information

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is characterized by time management challenges, hyper-focus, creativity and a strong difficulty in fitting within accepted norms of behaviour, in work and personal life.

People with ADHD have been shown to have different neurobiological pathway activation when undertaking tasks.

People with ADHD often require authenticity in relationships and work, to find meaning, and deploy their substantial creative skills.

ADHD is present in up to 10% of children and 5% of adults.

Most adults who have it are unawares of their condition and so attempt to live life by rules that don't work for them. Leading to a 10x rate of depression and anxiety.

With the right management and information, people with ADHD, have substantial contributions to make in fields requiring exploratory behaviour and finding news paths in ambiguous environments.

Entrepreneurship, scientific research, performance arts, rescue services and sales are stimulating arenas within which people with ADHD thrive.

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About Us - relates to #12

Attention Training is building a web and mobile platform to enable the creative thriving of individuals with ADHD.