People with ADHD excel at divergent thinking, generating multiple ideas from one starting point instead of just one. Research shows this strength makes them better at creating and inventing. The speaker suggests putting yourself in stimulating environments with art and music to boost focus and problem-solving.
Another way ADHD can be a blessing is creativity. There's significant research that people with ADHD have superior cognition, creativity, and other ways of basically saying creativity. Because we think divergently, which means we're thinking multiple things in multiple ways all the time, we're coming up with multiple ideas from a single point, whereas a neurotypical person is generally coming up with one. This is why we're great at creating, inventing, and innovating. So you can actually promote your focus By putting yourself into creative environments, and that environment might have more art, might have more music, or could have anything that is going to be stimulating you and thinking in new ways and thinking of new solutions to really interesting problems.
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