Have you ever had that moment where you get hit with an ah-ha moment that either makes you second guess every single moment of your life or validates every moment of your life? You think to yourself, "Holy shit... nothing is wrong with me, afterall - I'm just... xyz, and it's not my weakness, it's actually my strength!"
Yep, that's what I went through recently after I listened to an episode of The Goal Digger Podcast with ADHD entrepreneur, Tracy Otsuka. It was the first time I had heard a successful woman recount her experiences and struggles growing up, working a 9-5 job and starting her own business in a way that I, not only understood but, lived firsthand. My whole life I have wondered why I felt unmotivated, lazy and jealous of other students/employees who could just follow the damn rules. My internal dialog was always beating me down because I, like most, was raised in a society and educational system that tells us, if we aren't doing well in school we won't do well in life. I call BULLSHIT. According to 'In Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences' (1983) and its sequels, there are 8 (9 if you count spiritual) different types of intelligence, yet our schools historically focus on verbal-linguistic or mathematical-logical intelligences so... what about the rest of us? Bueller?....Beuller? To all of my fellow, former, D + C students... enough with the excuses they have given us, we are the ones who have the vision, we create the things, and start the companies... statistically speaking, the Valedictorians are just the ones who work for those companies. If you, or even your kid, have ever struggled in school, work or maybe wondered why things always seemed easier for "everyone else" this episode is for you.