ADHD and Mastery

Steven Barnes
5 min readApr 21, 2022

More on goals and intents. You have to do enough research to ask intelligent questions, and develop a perspective. I saw that there were many opinions about ADHD, but the ones I found the most agreeable is that there are multiple learning styles, and modern classrooms specialize in just a couple of them.

“Hunters in a world full of Farmers” (a phrase from the book THE EDISON GENE by Thom Hartman) made sense to me–not enough physical motion. Jason, I reasoned, was a Hunter/Warrior child. He should have been out running, jumping, and wrestling rather than sitting passively. He seemed to function much…

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Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes is a NY Times bestselling author, ecstatic husband and father, and holder of black belts in three martial arts. www.lifewritingpodcast.com.