Main Takeaways: - A basic overview of ADHD and common traits - How to recognize and be empathetic when someone’s brain is wired differently - Two strategies of how I use my ADHD to manage my products: A) Finding what really motivates me about something B)Creating rewards along the way to keep engaged and knowing when to bail

1. What ADHD Teaches Us About Being Better in
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7. Agenda
My ADHD Story
What is Attention Deficit
Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)?
What are the common traits and
experiences of the disorder?
Strategies for coping and product management
Summary and Resources

8. A B O U T M
E
I have ADHD

9. What is ADHD and Variable Attention Stimulus Trait (VAST)?

14. Exercise
Talk about it
Forgive and let go
Recognize your own strengths and advocate for the
strengths of others
Be vocal and vulnerable to help you find the right room
Mess with people through overly kind gestures
Create without expectation
My Strategies to Life with ADHD

15. Find your mission/why before you start
Weight success and failure criteria equally
Make prioritization a process to iterate and
less of a task
Overcoming insecurity: It’s easier to coach
“Core PM skills” than empathy and insight
My Strategies in Product Management

16. ADHD + Product Management

17. • The ADHD brain is like a Ferrari engine and you are the
PM to build the custom brakes
• There are lots of aspects of ADHD we don’t see; don’t
let yourself or others suffer in silence
• Engage, don’t dismiss
• Measure your life through the joy you bring and not by
the things you didn’t accomplish
Summary

18. Thanks to Sara Woods, PhD for her resources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFCKa9CVzGU
Check out: ADHD Gift on Facebook
https://twitter.com/jessejanderson (iceberg figure)
https://www.additudemag.com/slideshows/benefits-of-adhd-to-love/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/entrepreneurs-adhd/200909/seven-habits-highly-successful-entrep
reneurs-adhd
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dalearcher/2014/05/14/adhd-the-entrepreneurs-superpower/?sh=7da1456059e9
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-creativity-of-adhd/
ADHD Alien has helpful comics http://adhd-alien.com/2019/07/16/studying-with-an-alien/
https://twitter.com/danidonovan/status/1167559104514220034
the social versus medical model of disability
https://www.neurodivercitysg.com/medical-model-vs-social-model.html
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