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Faster Than Normal

Turbocharge Your Focus, Productivity, and Success with the Secrets of the ADHD Brain

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Faster Than Normal

By: Peter Shankman, Edward Hallowell - foreword
Narrated by: Peter Shankman, Bernie Wagenblast
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A refreshingly practical and honest guide that rewrites the script on ADHD

Peter Shankman is a busy guy - a media entrepreneur who runs several businesses, gives keynote speeches around the world, hosts a popular podcast, runs marathons and Iron Mans, is a licensed skydiver, dabbles in angel investing, and is a loving father to his young daughter.

Simply put, he always seems to have more than 24 hours in a day. How does he do it? Peter attributes his unusually high energy level and extreme productivity to his ADHD.

In Faster Than Normal, Shankman shares his hard-won insights and daily hacks for making ADHD a secret weapon for living a full and deeply satisfying life. Both inspiring and practical, the book presents life rules, best practices, and simple but powerful ways to:

  • Harness your creative energy to generate and execute your ideas
  • Direct your hyperfocus to get things done
  • Identify your pitfalls - and avoid them
  • Streamline your daily routine to eliminate distractions
  • Use apps and other tech innovations to free up your time and energy

Filled with ingenious hacks and supportive self-care advice, this is the positive, practical book the ADHD community has long needed - and is also an invaluable handbook for anyone who's sick of feeling overwhelmed and wants to drive their faster-than-normal brain at maximum speed...without crashing.

©2017 Peter Shankman (P)2017 Penguin Audio Attention Deficit Disorders Personal Success Psychology Time Management Mental Health Inspiring Add Productivity

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"Peter is a pioneer, an adventurer, an inventor and a seer. His advice is the best kind of advice. It is advice learned in the trenches, in the arena, on the fields of life." (Edward Hallowell, MD, from the foreword, best-selling author of Driven to Distraction)
"Peter Shankman is living proof that living outside the bell-shaped curve, combined with a drive to succeed, can produce amazing results." (Jordan D. Metzl, MD, author of The Exercise Cure)
"While ADHD may be considered a ‘deficit’ to some, Shankman positions it as an attribute within the context of our immediate future. ADHD is a unique gift of creative synthesis that makes sense only inside of the complex digital networks and hyper-stimulation that now defines us." (Amanda Steinberg, CEO, Worth Financial, and author of Worth It)

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good

experiences of writer are good to compare to one's self and validate experience of having ADHD, tools and hacks could be better and more concise

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Fantastic! Thank you

I now know how much of my self I have been hiding! Bring it on ...

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Amazing and motivating

This book is uplifting and motivational.
Fabulous advice to put and play and has helped me better understand, my faster than normal brain.

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Great for those faster than normal

An easy to follow book broken down to help those with adhd master their gift. It also help give those who aren’t adhd insight into some of the behaviours etc that might make some interactions difficult. Fantastic book ready to listen to those life hacks again and trial them out

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well done

fantastic resource for a quick thinker and easy to absorb. soaked it all in in one-day.

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Excellent book thanks!!

Brilliant strategies and a true insight into living successfully with ADHD. I was very relieved to find someone who really understands this condition. Thanks Peter!

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Very practical and condensed into a great listen.

Thank Mr Shankman your book has been a splendid listen, I found it to be full of wisdom, understanding and practicality.

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Insightful and succinct

such an eye opener, feels like we're not alone and that adhd can truly be a gift.

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great tips on being productive with ADHD

Great book similar to the podcasts. love how they called out squirrel when there was a change of topic. Listened to this for productivity tips and great to show that something that might be seen as a disability can be harnesses as a strength.

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Only just started but...

This book seems useful so far, however I just wanted to make a point for potential new listeners... there has already been an odd choice of example for ADHD greatness in the “founders” of America. A good point in that they were breaking away from monarchy and trying to find a balance between order and freedom, but anything remotely colonial makes me want to vom. Hopefully there aren’t more examples of this kind of worldview. The “squirrel” prompt is a pretty tired joke and I’m personally over it as a misrepresentation of ADHD... but it is a genius idea to use a prompt for ADHD listeners.!

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