A wounded boar, or elephant, or bear, can kill you—and many a Hunter has been killed by his would-be prey.

The opposite of a person with ADHD is the person who has the ability to focus attention on one task for an extended period of time. It's had some negative impacts on my life, and while I have my own set of coping strategies, I believe in expanding my options whenever possible, especially when it comes to my work life, where my ADHD has proven to occasionally be a real problem. Wish it had more in-text references, perhaps it's the academic in me, but at times it's hard to tell what's theory and what's been proven. Henry Harpending of the University of Utah reports that with this genetic mutation, "You probably do better in a context of aggressive competition.These two brain formations control the sensory input to the brain, the thalamus as a gate to the cortex and the reticular formation as an alarm announcing that there is danger. Following these stories are stories of the lives of six famous people with ADHD and how their ADHD was an asset for all they accomplished in their lives, in their inventive creativity, openness to taking risks, and how their lives changed the ways we now live: Thomas Edison with his more than a thousand inventions, Amelia Earhart with her risk taking and adventurous nature, Benjamin Franklin whose thinking and writings led to his assistance in the writing of our constitution, Sir Richard Francis Burton whose exploration of the many then unknown lands opened the door to the world we now know, Ernest Hemingway whose writings we are all familiar with, and Thomas Carlyle whose written tirades exposed many problems in our modern world. The second half of the book is a bit more generic, and you’ll probably find that your interest correlates negatively depending on how many other adhd type books you’ve read.

This book helped me better understand ADHD and gave me practical strategies on how to deal with these children in the classroom.In other words, an individual with the ADHD collection of characteristics would make an extraordinarily good hunter. If the wild boar vanishes into the brush, and a rabbit appears, the Hunter is off in a new direction.