Like many people I've struggled with attention and focus for much of my life it really

affected me most with reading when I was younger all through my high school years

just extremely painful to read a book.

In fact, even now it's very difficult for me to read.

I mostly listen to audio.

I'm mostly an audio learner, hence the podcast format.

But I went to a doctor at one point and actually got a clinical

diagnosis of A-D-D. Now, do I really have a D? I have no idea, but I got diagnosed and you can

do if you go to the doctor and tell me you can't pay attention. And it was interesting because the doctor looked at me and says

so you've got attention problems welcome to the club what would you like to do did you come here

to get on speed for the rest of your life and he was speaking in slang he was referring to Ritalin which was the drug of choice

then and you know either Ritalin or Adderall tend to be the drugs of choice now and when

he phrased it that way I thought no I don't want to take speed for the rest of my

life and it was a really interesting moment with I don't want to take speed for the rest of my life.

And it was a really interesting moment with allopathic medicine

where I really had a doctor asking me a really smart question.

You know, so you've got an attention problem, what are you going to do?

Are you going to attempt to medicate this away?

Are you going to figure out a way to work around it until much, much later in life,

learning how to deal with my own tendency to lose traction, to become and have become a very very productive

and what you might call a focused person but that doesn't mean I still don't have

moments of distraction and ridiculous lack of productivity. On this week's podcast we'll be talking about how to control your attention,

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