It Takes an ADHD to Push for [Rapid-Fire] Progress at Work. Now, I Actually Perceive. | by Aldric Chen | The Startup | Mar, 2025

Persona issues

My outsourcing enterprise associate is a self-proclaimed ADHD man.

He believes he’s. I feel he’s. He strikes on the velocity of sunshine. And you understand what’s surprising about that? He’s 65 years previous.

Shawn’s velocity is mirrored in his strolling.

He walks sooner than many younger of us we discover on the streets. He’s not often breathless. Shawn talks whereas strolling, too. He talks about work nonstop. Each 10–15 steps is a special matter.

Gross sales construction. Web site wireframes. YouTube outreach. An automatic gross sales funnel works finest at 4 tiers. Clients love freebies. Let’s do vouchers. Let’s give them free restaurant vouchers.

It’s endless.

That’s what I like about him. He’s energetic and targeted.

Shawn has the sharpest thoughts and business acumen I’ve ever seen in a 65-year-old.

I respect him.

Our warfare on arduous work

We’re at warfare in 2025.

Neglect 2025. It began through the Pandemic years, magnified itself, and by no means left us. I’m referring to our society’s warfare towards arduous work.

The pendulum is now swinging to the opposite finish.

I do know I’m a office neanderthal. I nonetheless imagine in working [super] arduous to realize our larger-than-life objectives and profession ambitions. It was influenced by my childhood within the office.

I plunged myself into the administration consulting business upon commencement. It was difficult work. Hours have been lengthy. Shoppers have been demanding. Bosses had excessive expectations.

I keep in mind going residence on the third day after reporting to a shopper web site for a venture project on Day 1. It was an unbelievable expertise.

Would I need to expertise that once more? Nope.

These hardcore years allowed me to smell out ultra-high achievers from the above-average wonderful of us. These of us on the pointy finish of the high-performance curve are obsessive about their work and might suppose whereas working. Shawn jogs my memory of them.