Nick – You covered a lot more than I could with fewer words. Great observations!
And yes – there are a lot more of us who operate that way rather than what many call “conventional” approaches to getting things done. Sadly, I have to point out that in these times, the so-called experts are too busy trying to pigeonhole the behavior rather than trying to understand and appreciate it.

With over 20% of our school children being “diagnosed” as ADD, all too many are now facing a lifetime of medication to suppress who they are and how they think. Instead, perhaps at a very early age – and at different stages in their school years – all children should be observed and perhaps tested to see how best they learn and function. Let’s face it: Each if us is different in our own unique ways. Some of us are visual learners while others are auditory, for example. I’ve often wondered how many kids grew up wondering if they were stupid because a teacher said so all too many times when little Johnny “just wouldn’t listen?” Worse still, most of these misdiagnosed “ADD kids” are then forced to take Ritalin or Adderall for the rest of their lives, possibly altering their brain patterns in the worst ways?

Perhaps one day, I’ll have an opportunity to approach the Gates Foundation to pique them about such a study. Wouldn’t learning how each child actually learns be a good place to start BEFORE you try to educate them?

For me personally – being a lifelong entrepreneur over a span of 50 years – I generally have many projects juggling in the air most of the time. My ideas and projects are at various stages from early incubation to serious launch and it’s always worked for me. In many ways, I see it as risk management: Some ideas and projects will succeed very quickly while others take much longer to percolate and crystallize. One thing I do hate: The hurry-up-and-wait process that typically goes along with working on one single project at a time. Even worse, the risk that this one project might not make it once you get it to a certain stage. And then where are you? Stuck looking for something else to do. I’d rather have a few irons in the fire as part of my own approach to risk mitigation. And I do confess: Sometimes, a couple of projects do happen to break at the same time making it an insane When-It-Rains-It-Pours situation. Such is the life of an entrepreneur and what I’ve come to accept as my way of life.

In recent years, I’ve been told that I’m a unique personality with latent ADHD tendencies (WTF?) but I get a lot of things done in short order that most people might never get done in a lifetime. Simply a matter of what happens to work for me. But I also happen to believe that I’m not alone out there. Like you, there may be more of us than people see. But we’re all too busy solving problems and changing the world to dwell on that too much.

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