ADHD: A Hunter in a Farmer's World

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The hyperactive and impulsive ones among us have adapted over time from hunters to consumers, and many have learned new behaviors and strategies to fit into a neurotypical world.

As a person with ADHD I dont consider myself a hunter at all and found the arguments fairly trivial way to empower people who are looking to use their ADHD in a productive manner.

In my childhood, I couldn’t pay attention to the teachers who had a bland teaching style, but I flourished with those who had an interactive, hands-on approach to learning. Thom Hartmann is a progressive radio talk show host, author, and retired businessman who was born and grew up in Michigan.

Positively affirms and validates ADHD 'hunter' types as giving an evolutionary advantage to our species of predominantly neurotypical 'farmer' types. Providing a supportive survival guide to help fine tune your natural skill set, rather than suppress it, Hartmann shows that each mind--whether hunter, farmer, or somewhere in between--has value and great potential waiting to be tapped. In this step-by-step guide, Thom Hartmann reveals how Hunters make excellent entrepreneurs, sharing ADHD success stories from Fortune 500 CEOs, inventors, small business owners, and his own hands-on experience in launching new business. Ko further states that the decreased need for 'hyperfocus' was building the conditions favourable for human language. According to evolutionary anthropologist Ben Campbell of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, studies of the Ariaal, an isolated nomadic group in Kenya, suggest that hyperactivity and impulsivity—key traits of ADHD—have distinct advantages to nomadic people.Some believe that learning is fastest and best when there is a constant shift between focused and an open state of consciousness.