Reading

My kids are not diagnosed as ODD - but the thoughtful exercises and research backed strategies in this book  have come in handy helping my kids build better routines and manage frustration.

I appreciate the format of this book.  ABCs in the first half - Modify the Environment: A = Antecedent (environment)  Teach EF directly B= behavior

Motivating : C= consequence 

Organizers in the "putting it all together" in the second half! 

I'm disturbed by some parents who seek to find a "cure" for their children's challenges and disregard their unique human quailties.  This book offers  validation for parents who choose to accept their complex kids for who the are, and make efforts to accept and help them, not "fix"

Decline in mid life is inevitable, and it happens sooner than many of us imagine. Strivers and workaholics who attain success in their 20s and 30s, find their strategies are less effective in their 40s and beyond.  This book explores why and what  to do about it. 

Average life span is 4000 weeks. . .how do we "spend" them?  Is "spend" even the right word? This book helps re-evaluate our relationship with time, and reckon with limited duration we're here on earth.  

As a parent, I long to help my children build a healthy relationship with technology. Appreciate that Haidt articulates the combination of overprotective parenting and technology access as a one, two punch that's leading to increases in mental illness. 

As a lead faculty member with Adaptive Leadership+, it's my  job to keep current with the strategies and practices of the ageless theory. I'm also working on synthesizing how this theory  applies to raising children and parenting. 

Nearly 10 years on the NYT bestseller's list, Bessel Van Der Kolk illustrates the necessity to address emotional trauma through somatic and physical entry points.   

This year I began studying Alexandar Technique a system of awareness building through postural change. Building body awareness gets me out of my head. I’m “unlearning” a ton - reducing tension and pain, and creating more expansive vision.   

As we adapt to a world of AI, I'm so curious about the capacity of our brains and creativity that computers cannot imitate. A fascinating history of Mental enhancement through drugs.

I always knew that diesels were a special kind of engine (in fact i reluctantly returned a "clean deisel" VW during deiselgate). Rudolf Deisel was a german gilded age industrialist who invented the motor and the story of his disappearance taps into all the deama of era at the dawn of WW1. 

J Dilla shifted paradigms in hip hop production, creating a sound that married the messiness of human "feel" with the precision of drum machines. This book provides a comprehensive picture of the complexities of genius.

Many of us with ADHD have selective memory, so  knowledge in the areas of our expertise can escape us from time to time. This comprehensive guide grounds me in how ADHD manifests differently for a variety of people. 

I'm a big fan of Leslie Josel, an expert in teen organizational coaching - with nuanced views on procrastination.  This practical and playful book demystifying why we procrastinate and provides strategies for working through it. 

Written is playful journalistic style, Hari takes a deep dive into the cultural and biological reasons for humans diminishing ability to focus over the last 150 years. 

Dopamine is central  to desire and addiction. When it comes to ADHD, dopamine regulation can be responsible for struggles with impulse control. Understanding biological underpinnings of neurodiversity can help clients manage.  

Lembke identifies that many of our individuals struggles stem from the culture that arises in an attention economy, 

This book Introduced me to the concept of VAST - "variable attention stimulus trait" an arguably better phrase than ADHD that shifts onset to our attention hungry culture! 

The Japanese concept of Ikigai centers attitudes and beliefs that lead to a fulfilling life. Many of the principles encourage access to "flow" - the state of comprehensive engagement.

This classic "performance" book from the 70s introduces many of the concepts we now know as "flow" - based in an easy to metaphor of tennis and his experince as a Pro. 

Our culture is struggling to define and modernize concepts of manhood. In the era of automation, AI and political instability, Reeves argues that we need to move beyond outdated beliefs to help men thrive without denigrating the progress of women over the past 70 years. 

Deboer offers a seething criticism of contemporary liberal strategy and bases many recommendations from a Marxist, class based perspective. Though I'm not sure I agree with every criticism her shares, its was a very helpful read to illustrate the logic of people who have greatly change political alliance since Trump, Biden and Covid. 

Naomi Klein and Naomi Wolf were cut from the same cloth, but grew do have profoundly  diffferent perspectives and beliefs. Klein explores the challenges of contemporary culture, identity, politics and what it means to be human through her deeply personal tale of publicly mistaken identity.