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The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success

How to Use Your Brain's Executive Skills to Keep Up, Stay Calm, and Get Organized at Work and at Home

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The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success

By: Peg Dawson EdD, Richard Guare PhD
Narrated by: Randye Kaye
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Are you smart, scattered, and struggling? You're not alone. Cutting-edge research shows that today's 24/7 wired world and the growing demands of work and family life may simply max out the part of the brain that manages complex tasks. That's especially true for those lacking strong executive skills - the core brain-based abilities needed to maintain focus, meet deadlines, and stay cool under pressure.

In this essential guide, leading experts Peg Dawson and Richard Guare help you map your own executive skills profile and take effective steps to boost your organizational skills, time management, emotional control, and nine other essential capacities.

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©2016 The Guilford Press (P)2016 Tantor Attention Deficit Disorders Mental Health Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Health

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"This isn't just a good book, it's a great book!" (Russell A. Barkley, author of Taking Charge of Adult ADHD)
Comprehensive Resource • Practical Strategies • Pleasant Voice • Valuable Content • Organized System • Good Narrator
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Clearly explains executive skills and practical solutions and action plans. Recently diagnosed ADHD and hope for my aging brain.

Clear explanations

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they explain for each of the different aspects of executive functioning, what we know about it what it looks like a case study what the people do about it and why they're approach works. All in all the way that it's broken down, is very helpful to me in understanding different levels and aspect of executive functioning. I learned quite a lot about my own processes.

I really like the way it's organized

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This was a great book for people who are starting out in the self help book genre. All of these books have some unique information, and this one provided more ideas for people who are older and some good advice for people who are neurodivergent.

Great for beginners to the self help genre

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The content of this book is wonderful. I bought the hardcopy originally and wanted to listen to it as well to reinforce the reading. It’s a tough listen. The emotionless reading of this book makes it a slog and it need not be. I often listened to this and thought of the response Siri gives when you ask her to recite the words to Bohemian Rhapsody. The words are there, but they are mechanical.

Siri? Is that you?

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Dr. Dawson has figured out how to help students and adults improve their executive skill functioning in an organized and well thought-out system.

Peg Dawson incorporates research/ practical.

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It’s pretty well organized and helpful when it comes to figuring out your strengths and weaknesses outlined in the book. It’s definitely helpful in giving examples and ideas for how to deal with each weakness as well.

The only thing I hated was the repetitiveness of the later chapters going over the weaknesses and how to change them. After steps 1-3, the “what it looks like in practice” and “action plan” sections were both exactly the same thing in all the chapters and it was kind of annoying that it wasn’t unique for each one.

I only went through the later chapters of my own weaknesses, but I can’t imagine reading through the entire book, because of that.

Overall though I will be implementing some of the things I learned in the book, especially with in regards to working memory and flexibility which are my main two weakness points.

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This is a really great, comprehensive resource that helps you identify executive skill weaknesses and strengths in your kids and yourself. They have an executive functioning self assessment for you and your child/teen. You can download or print this off from http://www.smartbutscatteredkids.com/media/resources/print-articles/. Gives you skills to help yourself and your children become better with time management, emotional control, sustained attention, impulse control, planning prioritization and so much more. Really helpful.

Very helpful on a practical level

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I appreciated the way the different executive functions were presented, then strengthening exercise or methods given. This is a special gift to those of us with ADHD.

Well thought out, detailed, but not over-technical.

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Would you listen to The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success again? Why?

Yes--this is a great book with good suggestions, but the constant reference to the downloadable worksheets is frustrating. As an Audible purchase, it seems like there's only half of the book available.

Where are the worksheets?

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Guilford.com or nyspta.org
Narrator is good but speaks kind slow. Otherwise a very helpful book

Worksheets are on website

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