How to leverage ADHD strengths

The Maverick Paradox Podcast

In this episode Judith Germain speaks to Claire Milligan about her experience living with ADHD and how it impacts her life and work.

Key Takeaways

• ADHD manifests differently in each person - it's a spectrum. Claire has inattentive ADHD.
• Getting diagnosed as an adult woman is difficult since ADHD often shows up differently than the "hyperactive young boy" stereotype.
• Medication helps provide a baseline level of dopamine to aid focus and mood regulation.
• Creating external structure and systems helps compensate for ADHD challenges. Calendars, reminders, checklists are common tools.
• Starting small tasks can create momentum to tackle bigger, challenging tasks.
• Focus on outcomes rather than process to leverage ADHD strengths like hyperfocus.
• ADHD and autism have overlap - "audio HD" - and often co-occur.

In this conversation Claire explained the different types of ADHD symptoms, from hyperactive to inattentive. She discusses the challenges of diagnosis in women and how ADHD affects her work through hyperfocus.

Claire warns of overcommitting while distracted. Neurodiversity benefits companies if success is judged on outcomes rather than processes. Reasonable adjustments help ADHD employees thrive.

Claire Milligan thrives on distilling complex problems down to their core issues - and turning these pragmatic findings into groundbreaking solutions. As the CEO of startup Aimably, she's applying her unique superpowers to help businesses grow by spending smarter and dramatically reducing their cloud costs.

You can find out more about our guest and today's episode in this Maverick Paradox Magazine article here.

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