Why ADD And ADHD Are Good For You (And Supplements, Foods & Lifestyle Strategies To Help With ADD & ADHD).

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Ben Greenfield

Education, Fitness, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 15 October 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Peter Shankman, my guest in this podcast, truly believes that ADD and ADHD are good for you. He believes they're not just good for you, but that they can be keys to success.

He hosts the website Faster Than Normal, a blog that focuses on the benefits of having ADD/HD and a podcast that interviews CEOs, celebrities, and other successful people who have ADD/HD, and have turned it to their advantage. For several years, Peter has been public about the fact that he's ADD/HD, and that he blames ADHD for most of his success. He's best known for founding Help A Reporter Out (HARO) and as the founder and CEO of The Geek Factory, Inc. a boutique social media, marketing and customer service strategy firm located in New York City. Peter spends the majority of his time on the road, keynoting corporate events for clients including AmericanExpress, Sheraton, Saudi Aramco, Cisco, SAP, Sprint, The US Department of Defense, Walt Disney World and many more. In his little spare time he is a NASA Advisory Board member, angel investor in multiple start-ups, sub-4 marathon runner, Ironman and B-licensed skydiver. A tweet of his was voted one of the top 10 Tweets of 2011 by ABC News and Twitter. He also recently authored the bestselling book Zombie Loyalists: Using Great Service to Create Rabid Fans. He lives in New York City with his beautiful wife and daughter, and two psychotic cats.

During our discussion, you'll discover:

-Why Peter thinks that ADD and ADHD are good for you...[7:30]

-How do you know if you have ADD or ADHD or if you're just a "busy" person...[16:20]

-The best book to read if you have ADD or ADHD...[16:46]

-Famous people who have ADD and ADHD (you'll be surprised), including Ben Franklin, Seth Godin and more...[18:17]

-Whether ADD and ADHD is an actual condition, or just an overdiagnosis for people who are busy and get stuff done...[21:35]

-Peter's three top easy and simple ways to "fast reboot" an ADHD brain...[30:14]

-Specific supplements that can help with ADD or ADHD...[38:27]

-How to eliminate decision-making fatigue and keep too many choices from "paralyzing" you...[41:40]

-What are the most important things you can do if you live with someone who has ADHD...[45:50]

-And much more!

Resources from this episode: -Dopamine Brain Food by NaturalStacks -Book: Delivered From Distraction -My original interview with Peter: Top Fitness Productivity Tips From Peter Shankman AND A Massive Fitness & Nutrition Q&A Bonus!

Do you have questions, comments or feedback for Peter or me? Leave your thoughts at BenGreenfieldFitness.com and one of us will reply!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, it's Ben Greenfield. Sometimes I feel like Elmer Fud when I say that.
0:05.0	Hello, hello, hello!
0:09.0	No, seriously, hello. I hope your day is going well. I just got off a plane.
0:12.0	I've been sitting on a plane for the past five hours. I hopped on a plane to fly down to Kauai.
0:17.0	Hawaii. And I'm here for the week attending a friend's wedding celebration.
0:21.0	And I must have been doing a little bit of spearfishing on the side. I like weddings.
0:27.0	But I also like catching tasty fish. So my hip flexors are tight. I've been sitting a long time.
0:33.0	But I wanted to get in here and get this podcast out to you. Now, speaking of sitting,
0:39.0	I want to tell you about the benefits of standing. Now, you know the benefits of standing.
0:44.0	Do I really need to insult your intelligence and tell you that maybe you stand or sit too much?
0:50.0	You can stand too much too. You know that standing too much is just as bad as before.
0:53.0	Is that for you sitting too much? Well, the idea is that in two rooms in my house,
0:58.0	at my kitchen table, which annoys my wife, but I do it anyways,
1:01.0	and also up in my bedroom, I have on the counter in the bedroom and down on the kitchen table,
1:07.0	this thing called a veridesc. So it goes up and down, meaning I can kneel sometimes.
1:11.0	I can lunge like I am right now as I'm talking to you. I don't have my veridesc with me,
1:15.0	but if I did, my computer would be on that. You can stand, you can sit, you name it.
1:21.0	You could do jumping jacks or jump on a mini trampoline. I don't care.
1:24.0	But this veridesc goes straight up and down in literally seconds and allows you to use a computer,
1:30.0	laptop, PC, whatever you want. They have a whole bunch of different models,
1:33.0	and they're super affordable. They started just 175, which I would say for allowing you to burn
1:38.0	an extra 650 calories per week is pretty good. Plus there's all the benefits of you not having low back pain,
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