What can ADHD teach us about Knowing When to Quit? Today's guest Matthew Bellringer has some ideas...

Matthew is a divergent innovation guide, neurodiversity advocate and social entrepreneur. They believe that with the right support, unconventional people can make a unique contribution to addressing big, messy problems that affect everyone. Working with (mostly) neurodivergent professionals, academics, and entrepreneurs, Matthew helps establish original approaches to complex issues. They also work with organisations to create the kind of spaces which support this work.

In this episode we explore:

🧐 Why having a short attention span can be a good thing

👨🏻‍⚕️ Matthew's journey with ADHD and Dyslexia diagnoses

🎢 The difference between appetite for risk and appetite for uncertainty

🤹🏻‍♀️ How Matthew realises it's time to move away from a hobby and what they do to honour the completion

😩 How to know where to start when you're feeling overwhelmed with options

👎🏽 The stigma around being a generalist

👯‍♀️ How the desire quit plays out when they're working with others

Matthew's website: matthewbellringer.com

Find Matthew on Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-bellringer/ 

Matthew's podcast: https://www.matthewbellringer.com/delightful-dissent

Navigating Neurodiversity, for people exploring and figuring out what to do with diagnosis, before and after:

https://iaq.matthewbellringer.com/notes/wkfywxei831rn1ncukspxjc/ 

and its counterpart for those supporting a neurodivergent person personally or professionally, Supporting Neurodiversity: 

https://iaq.matthewbellringer.com/notes/89tai34f8kpwdcj4zbp5oo3/ 

Matthew as a speaker/writer - https://iaq.matthewbellringer.com/notes/fwbn4nd6nooqxdqcewd2o1i/

Knowing When to Quit - Instagram - @knowingwhentoquit

Podcast homepage - www.sarahweiler.com/podcast/

Editor - Johnny Hall / Music - Sarah Weiler / Artwork - Tom Pauling

This was recorded in April 2022

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