To Name But a Few:
Ansel Adams - Ann Bancroft (the explorer) - Alexander Graham Bell - Harry Andersen - Hans Christian Anderson - Beethoven - Harry Belafonte - Col. Gregory ‘Pappy’ Boyington - Terry Bradshaw - Richard Branson - George Burns - Andrew Carnegie - Dale Carnegie - Jim Carrey - Lewis Carroll - Prince Charles -
Cher - Agatha Christie - Winston Churchill - Bill Cosby - Tom Cruise - Salvador Dali - Leonardo da Vinci - John Denver - Walt Disney - Kirk Douglas - Thomas Edison - Albert Einstein - Dwight D. Eisenhower - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Malcolm Forbes - Henry Ford - Benjamin Franklin - Robert Frost - Galileo - Danny Glover - Tracey Gold - Whoopi Goldberg - Georg Frideric Handel - Valerie Hardin - Mariette Hartley - Ernest Hemingway - Mariel Hemingway - Milton Hershey - Dustin Hoffman - Bruce Jenner - "Magic" Johnson - Samuel Johnson - Micheal Jordan - John F Kennedy - Robert F Kennedy - Jason Kidd - John Lennon - Carl Lewis - Meriwether Lewis (Lewis & Clark) - Abraham Lincoln - Frank Lloyd Wright - Greg Louganis - Steve McQueen - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Napoleon Bonaparte - Gamal Abdel-nasser - Sir Issac Newton - Nostradamus - Ozzy Osbourne - Louis Pasteur - General George Patton - Pablo Picasso - Edgar Allan Poe - Rachmaninov - John D. Rockefeller - Nelson Rockefeller - Anna Eleanor Roosevelt - Pete Rose - Babe Ruth - Nolan Ryan - Muhammed Anwar al Sadat - George C Scott - George Bernard Shaw - Will Smith - Tom Smothers - Socrates - Suzanne Somers - Steven Spielberg - Sylvester Stallone - Jackie Stewart - James Stewart - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Nikola Tesla - Henry David Thoreau - Alberto Tomba -Vincent van Gogh - Russell Varian - Jules Verne - Werner von Braun - Lyndsay Wagner - Robin Williams - Woodrow Wilson - Henry Winkler -Virginia Woolf - Stevie Wonder - F. W. Woolworth - Orville Wright - Wilber Wright - William Wrigley Jr. - William Butler Yeats
sources:
http://www.schwablearning.org/articles.asp?r=258
http://borntoexplore.org/famous.htm
http://www.oneaddplace.com/famous.htm
http://www.kpinst.org/famous.html
http://adhdtexas.com/famouspeople.htm
Friday, June 23, 2006
36. Dustin Hoffman
I keep trying to search for evidence of successful people with ADHD, and there are no shortage of websites, but being the pragmatic so-and-so that I am, I want proof!
Just a list of names is not enough for me, although if I had time I’d read the biographies of all the names listed to find my own evidence. When I was at uni we’d be in trouble if we didn’t reference the source of every fact we included in our essays – and quite right too, so that the reader could see for themselves that we haven’t just made stuff up. But the internet isn’t quite so strict, of course.
It is documented on several websites that Dustin Hoffman had learning difficulties. I love Dustin Hoffman and wanted to find evidence of this, so I asked on a popular message board if any of his fans knew if it were true, and what their source was. I had a range of replies, from people implying that ADHD people were retarded, to posts saying that the ‘facts’ must be true because people who put up webpages MUST do their research! HA!
It was soon clear that I was barking up the wrong tree. I shall obviously have to wait until my screenplay’s up for an academy award, so I can ask him myself.
In the meantime I’ll have to believe them at:
http://www.schwablearning.org/articles.asp?r=258
Just a list of names is not enough for me, although if I had time I’d read the biographies of all the names listed to find my own evidence. When I was at uni we’d be in trouble if we didn’t reference the source of every fact we included in our essays – and quite right too, so that the reader could see for themselves that we haven’t just made stuff up. But the internet isn’t quite so strict, of course.
It is documented on several websites that Dustin Hoffman had learning difficulties. I love Dustin Hoffman and wanted to find evidence of this, so I asked on a popular message board if any of his fans knew if it were true, and what their source was. I had a range of replies, from people implying that ADHD people were retarded, to posts saying that the ‘facts’ must be true because people who put up webpages MUST do their research! HA!
It was soon clear that I was barking up the wrong tree. I shall obviously have to wait until my screenplay’s up for an academy award, so I can ask him myself.
In the meantime I’ll have to believe them at:
http://www.schwablearning.org/articles.asp?r=258
35. Creative Writing
Another area where I’m improving is typing – although that’s speed, NOT accuracy! My typing has certainly got faster, but that’s just because I type so often. I’ve actually started my screenplay that I keep threatening to unleash on the world, but I only do one hour a day on it maximum. It’s all I can fit in. I have to stick to an hour even if most of that is thinking time – though I write ideas down all the time.
I was stuck without a pen the other day, so I rang myself up and left the idea as a message! – I often do that with songs I write, as I don’t carry a tape recorder around with me.
I have a friend who’s 80 later this year. When I told her I intend to beat Johnny Depp to an oscar she said “I wish you’d get on with it”. So I am.
Why not put an hour or two a week aside to do what it is you truly want to do? If you did the two hours together it’d just be like doing a nightschool class. You’d probably look forward to it all week.
I was stuck without a pen the other day, so I rang myself up and left the idea as a message! – I often do that with songs I write, as I don’t carry a tape recorder around with me.
I have a friend who’s 80 later this year. When I told her I intend to beat Johnny Depp to an oscar she said “I wish you’d get on with it”. So I am.
Why not put an hour or two a week aside to do what it is you truly want to do? If you did the two hours together it’d just be like doing a nightschool class. You’d probably look forward to it all week.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
34. Improved Concentration
I think my concentration levels are actually improving (I’m drifting off much less – I think that’s because it’s finally sunk in just how much work I have to do). I only noticed this when I had to decipher the information on my phone bill. Are they ever straight forward? I went through it one line at a time, and it made sense! I felt so proud.
I’m not sure whether this is because of all the exercise I’m getting – at least 90 minutes’ walk a day – or because of all the reading I’ve done lately – (I’m reading over six hours a day, learning Internet Marketing and reading ebooks and hard books).
Or could it be because my attitude towards reading has changed?
Previously, I’d have looked at the phone bill, and thought “I can’t understand it” and phoned the phone company up for them to explain it. Ironic eh? Not really – the number has always been free. But not now: I’ve changed from BT to NTL and the customer service number is not free. Aha! The real reason for my new found concentration!
I’ve completely given up TV. I’d throw it out, but I need it for my exercise videos. I don’t think my friends believe me, but Jim Edwards is right to call it the ‘idiot box’ – and it’s such a massive thief of time.
Do yourself a favour – sell your telly! - Stick it on Ebay and teach the kids origami or something. Then write an ebook about it!
You know it makes sense.
I’m not sure whether this is because of all the exercise I’m getting – at least 90 minutes’ walk a day – or because of all the reading I’ve done lately – (I’m reading over six hours a day, learning Internet Marketing and reading ebooks and hard books).
Or could it be because my attitude towards reading has changed?
Previously, I’d have looked at the phone bill, and thought “I can’t understand it” and phoned the phone company up for them to explain it. Ironic eh? Not really – the number has always been free. But not now: I’ve changed from BT to NTL and the customer service number is not free. Aha! The real reason for my new found concentration!
I’ve completely given up TV. I’d throw it out, but I need it for my exercise videos. I don’t think my friends believe me, but Jim Edwards is right to call it the ‘idiot box’ – and it’s such a massive thief of time.
Do yourself a favour – sell your telly! - Stick it on Ebay and teach the kids origami or something. Then write an ebook about it!
You know it makes sense.
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