Faster Than Normal, Peter Shankman
Faster Than Normal, Peter Shankman
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Faster Than Normal
Turbocharge Your Focus, Productivity, and Success with the Secrets of the ADHD Brain

Author: Peter Shankman, Edward Hallowell

Narrator: Peter Shankman, Bernie Wagenblast

Unabridged: 5 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 10/03/2017

Synopsis

A refreshingly practical and honest guide that rewrites the script on ADHD

Peter Shankman is a busy guy -- a media entrepreneur who runs several businesses, gives keynote speeches around the world, hosts a popular podcast, runs marathons and Iron Mans, is a licensed skydiver, dabbles in angel investing, and is loving father to his young daughter. 

Simply put, he always seems to have more than 24 hours in a day. How does he do it? Peter attributes his unusually high energy level and extreme productivity to his ADHD. 

In Faster Than Normal, Shankman shares his hard-won insights and daily hacks for making ADHD a secret weapon for living a full and deeply satisfying life. Both inspiring and practical, the book presents life rules, best practices, and simple but powerful ways to:

Harness your creative energy to generate and execute your ideas
Direct your hyperfocus to get things done 
Identify your pitfalls--and avoid them
Streamline your daily routine to eliminate distractions
Use apps and other tech innovations to free up your time and energy

Filled with ingenious hacks and supportive self-care advice, this is the positive, practical book the ADHD community has long needed - and is also an invaluable handbook for anyone who's sick of feeling overwhelmed and wants to drive their faster-than-normal brain at maximum speed...without crashing.

About The Author

Peter Shankman is an entrepreneur, CEO, runner, skydiver, podcaster, Ironman triathlete, and a dad. He’s the founder of ShankMinds: Breakthrough, a private, online entrepreneur community with members from around the world. Peter also hosts the top-rated podcast Faster Than Normal, helping people to understand that ADD and ADHD are a gift, not a curse. He’s based in New York City. Visit FasterThanNormal.com.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Felix on December 23, 2018

The book certainly contains some advise useful for anybody interested in increasing their focus and productivity. However, seemingly 50% of the book are dedicated to the author bragging about his $30k speaking fees, and flying business class around the world where he writes bestselling books in less......more

Goodreads review by Holly on August 11, 2020

So.... partway through this audiobook, I thought it was amazing. I wanted my own copy! I was excited to reference it regularly, and wanted to highlight the heck out of it. Bought a used copy all for myself! So. Excited. (Impulsive choice! ADHD, hooray!) Then my audiobook checkout from the library was......more

Goodreads review by Steph on August 04, 2021

2.5 stars rounded up. I thought there were two good things about this book: (1) the framing of ADHD in a positive light, which is a welcome constraint to all the books about how ADHD kids need to be forced into faking neurotypical behaviours (yuck), and (2) the reminder that ADHD is basically caused......more

Goodreads review by Ms. Just One More Book on December 20, 2017

Peter Shankman does something rare in his speaking about the diagnosis of ADHD, and that is that ADHD is not diagnosis at all. A diagnosis of something is to say that is it is a disease of some sort. ADHD is not a disease, but a gift. It's learning to tap into that gift, that can often be difficult.......more

Goodreads review by Przemek on July 06, 2021

This book is pretty bad. It is not very well researched. Doesn’t have many references to latest science on Adult ADHD. It is mostly based on interviews and author’s observations. And it’s a mix of self-promotion, self-help, an affiliate marketing that has been written by a super privileged white dud......more

Quotes

"Peter is a pioneer, an adventurer, an inventor and a seer. His advice is the best kind of advice.  It is advice learned in the trenches, in the arena, on the fields of life."
--Edward Hallowell, MD, from the Foreword, bestselling author of Driven to Distraction

“Peter Shankman is living proof that living outside the bell-shaped curve, combined with a drive to succeed, can produce amazing results.”
--Jordan D. Metzl, MD, author of The Exercise Cure

 “While ADHD may be considered a ‘deficit’ to some, Shankman positions it as an attribute within the context of our immediate future. ADHD is a unique gift of creative synthesis that makes sense only inside of the complex digital networks and hyper-stimulation that now defines us.”  
--Amanda Steinberg, CEO, Worth Financial and author of Worth It
 
 

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