But since they appear average they are unable to find the support they need to help them go beyond just being average. Across the chapters, Hartmann backs his assertions up with evidence, offers non-drug methods and practices to help hunters (as well as those who live alongside them) to welcome their differences, hone their skills, cultivate their creativity, and find success in their lives. The radio show is also simulcast as TV in realtime into nearly 60 million US and Canadian homes by the Free Speech TV Network on Dish Network, DirectTV, and cable TV systems nationwide. As hunters, they would have been constantly scanning their environment, looking for food or threats (distractibility); they'd have to act without hesitation (impulsivity); and they'd have to love the high-stimulation and risk-filled environment of the hunting field.

The answer is: people with ADHD are the leftover hunters, those whose ancestors evolved and matured thousands of years in the past in hunting societies.it has been an epiphany for me and I tell anyone I hear with ADHD, about this book; of course I do, we are over sharers! If we think of this distribution as lying along a 12 inch ruler, then those with extremely focused consciousness may appear in the 2 to 3 inch area, while those with an extremely open consciousness or inability to focus is in the 9 to 10 inch area. In the workplace, the expectations of the Hunter need to be defined in measurable short-term goals given when possible only one at a time. Meanwhile, us inattentive types are still happily painting our caves; we’re considered an anomaly in the modern world.

The Epilogue to the book examines the evolution and migration over the last 10,000 years of the hunter-gatherer from what is now the Near East in becoming the agriculturists of the Western World. If the wild boar vanishes into the brush, and a rabbit appears, the Hunter is off in a new direction. I felt by the end, what I got was a book with advertisements, and more than a few sections where the author got to say "I told you so!This opposite has been considered normal in our culture, but there is a disadvantage to this ability, i. Wright posits that all of human behavior is based on a single motivation---will this behavior continue my gene pool. Many of the adults who take Ritalin for ADHD swear that they wished they had discovered this medication long before because of how it has made their life so much easier.

With our structured public schools, office workplaces, and factories those who inherit a surplus of ';hunter skills' are often left frustrated in a world that doesn't understand or support them. In this groundbreaking book, Thom Hartmann makes a unique contribution to our understanding of ADHD.

I imagine he would tell me something similar to what Thom Hartmann believes, “Those with ADHD were the hunters in earlier times. Often highly creative and single-minded in pursuit of a self-chosen goal, those with ADHD symptoms possess a unique mental skill set that would have allowed them to thrive in a hunter-gatherer society. The watchman theory is that those of us with ADHD are wired like hunters, but we live in a farmer’s world.