ADD - The Hunter

 Thom Hartmann believes that ADD well suits a person to live in a hunting-gathering world, but that it puts them at a disadvantage in a farming or industrial world. For the first two hundred thousand years of human history, ADDers ruled the world, but now that over 98 percent of the world's population lives in an industrial or developing industrial world, ADD has become a disadvantage --- unless you're one of those who has learned how reinvent your life to work with,instead of against, your neurological difference.


He believed that ADDers and Hunters are one and the same. He believes that ADD traits are hunter-gatherer traits. He believe that the "normal" people who are good with routine, order, obedience, conventional are the farmer types.

 Thom Hartmann was referring to the whole ADD, ADHD thing 

 In the DSM-IV-TR  There are 3 types

ADHD,inattentive type

ADHD,combined type

ADHD,hyperactive type 


A New View of ADD

Not as a Disorder but as a natural adaptive trait</p> page 73 from Thom Hartmann's Complete Guide to ADHD 


1.Trait As It Appears In the Disorder View

2. How It Appears In The Hunter View

 3. Opposite Farmer Trait 


1. Distractible/2.Constantly monitoring their environment/3. Not easily distracted from the task at hand 


1. Attention span is short,but can become intensely focused for long periods of time

2. Able to throw themselves into the chase on a moment's notice

3. Able to sustain a steady, dependable effort 


1. Poor planner: disorganized and impulsive (makes snap decisions)

2. Flexible;ready to change strategy quickly.

3. Organized,purposeful. They have a long-term strategy and they stick to it.


1. Distorted sense of time: unaware of how long it will take to do something

2. Tireless: capable of sustained drives,but only when hot on the trail of some goal.

3. Conscious of time and timing. They get things done in time,pace themselves,have good staying power.


1. Impatient

2. Results oriented. Acutely aware of whether the goal is getting closer now.

3. Patient. Aware that good things take time; willing to wait. 


1. Doesn't convert words into concepts adeptly, and vice versa. May or may not have a reading disability.

2. Visual/concrete thinker, clearly seeing a tangible goal even if there are no words for it.

3. Much better able to seek goals that aren't easy to see at the moment. 


1. Has difficulty following directions.

2. Independent

3. Team player.


1. Daydreamer

2. Bored by mundane tasks; enjoys new ideas, excitement, the hunt, being hot on the trail.

3. Focused. Good at follow-through, tending to details, taking care of business. 


1. Acts without considering the consequences.

2. Willing and able to take risks and face danger.

3. Careful, look before you leap. 


1. Lacking in the social graces./2. No time for niceties when there are decisions to be made!/3. Nurturing; creates and supports community values; attuned to whether something will last.

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