View from the Cliff: A Course in Achieving Daily Focus
Author: Lynn, Ph.D. Weiss
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ISBN: 0878332537
Publisher: Taylor Pub (April, 2001)
Sales Rank: 9,590
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
This book has changed my life!
I read this book after being diagnosed with ADD at the age of 52, and I feel like I have been given wings and set free. With the understanding of what ADD is and is not that this book provides, I can look at myself and my life with more compassion. I can understand and sympathize with the little girl who day-dreamed her way through grade school and the teen who felt totally ostracized from others. Even though I knew I was a smart kid, I know now why I had to work three times as hard as others to get through college, and I understand the bosses who fired or refused to promote a ditzy person who managed to screwed up even the simplest of repetetive tasks. I can even understand the failed and inappropriate relationships that have plagued me my entire adult life.
With the knowledge of what ADD is and the understanding of its impacts, I have been able to successfully modify my job to be one which can capitalize on my strengths instead of floundering on my ineptnesses. For the first time ever I actually LIKE my job instead of being bored to tears by it, and I am able to do it well enough to have received a promotion.My continuous struggles and frequent failures at things I knew I was smart enough to do I can now see in a different light and can forgive myself. This book has changed my life.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Guilt-free Help with Adult ADD
Many adult ADD self-help books claim the "you're not damaged, you're just different" philosophy -- and then proceed to prescribe ways to "fix your problem" with conventional time management and organizing methods. Fortunately, Weiss's approach is more creative, constructive, and strengthening. The author's tone reflects an acceptance of what's generally pathologized and "handled" as a limiting or disabling condition. Noting both strengths and challenges, Weiss succinctly covers many different areas affected by adult ADD, also acknowledging some of the underlying personality issues and emotional aspects. These plusses more than outweigh the inevitable and relatively innocuous happy-talk/pop-psych quotient. I was diagnosed last year, and have taken a great deal of useful support from the book.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Great Book
This was as very insightful book. It helped me to understand just how my brain works. It was as if it were written about me. It was enlightening. This book does not make a person with ADD feel deficient in anyway. It points out the strengths and weaknesses and how to harness them. The suggestions were very helpful and easy to follow. I intend to read it again just to help keep me on track. Similar Products
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