Think Scrambled Eggs

I have no idea what it must be like to live with ADD, but I imagine a colorful scene with thoughts of every color swirling endlessly, trying to simultaneously complete 10+ tasks, never seeming to finish any given one. It would seem like an existence in which a moment of brilliance could be lost simply because a pop-up ad drew your attention away from a web page, or the pizza man finally arrived with your stuffed crust. It almost seems that people with ADD/ADHD are simultaneously involved in so many different tangents that the end result is never what was intended, which would seem to create feelings of indifference and depression.

I obviously do not have to personally struggle with this mind-numbing disposition, but I do have firsthand experience living with a sufferer of this condition. It is immediately apparent on approach of our home from the appearance of the the exposed wood around the front door, that following projects to completion is not one of his strong suits. Butterfinger is one of the most kind and intelligent people I know, but he has a real hard time following things through, especially once he has figured out the exact steps needed to finish a given project.

How do you keep someone, who’s mind wanders incessantly, on task? Creating a log of what steps have been done and things to do only results in unnecessary tree death. Keeping someone that takes their medicine at different times of the day, at infrequent intervals, on a schedule is harder than doing bicep curls with full kegs. Making lists and checking them twice only works in Santaland, and hiring me as his personal secretary is financially and logically just not a feasible option. So what do I do?

I listen to venting, earn credits toward my degree in Psychology, work on tedious/remedial tasks as they are passed down to me, and I will not accept ADD as an excuse for anything, especially anything startup related. They way I see it, ADD is actually a pretty decent disorder to have when it comes to being able to prepare content and find new ideas; a fitting entrepreneurial disease. If your brain is constantly trying to wrap itself around a few different topics, you will somehow find a way they are interrelated, and be able to harness that interrelated nature in developing a new product or providing a compelling argument with a novelty never heard before.

Scrambled eggs can either be a nasty, disheveled mess, or an artfully constructed Sunday breakfast food, capable of filling you up while nourishing your brain.