Hands up (again) all our favourite “I think I might have ADHD” people 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️

For a lot of us, finding an explanation for things we’ve struggled with can be a huge relief. But a diagnosis doesn’t neatly absolve responsibility. 

In last years Fink Tank about ADHD, we talked about the subtle difference between an explanation and an excuse. 

It prompted more conversation, in the comments and real life, than perhaps any other episode last year. Clearly it’s a distinction people grapple with.

In today’s chat, Col opens with two magnificently simple questions he heard from Michael Port. 

Do you know what to do?

Are you doing it?

For those of us who were “gifted” children who now struggle to maintain focus or see things through, this is a disarmingly simple provocation. 

Because often, ADHD or not, we know what to do.

We’re just not doing it. 

Enter parts theory. 

I play the appropriately uninformed sounding board while Col talks us through a mental model which explains a lot of very human experience.