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Nov
4
2011
for Wayseers // Trouble for Troublemakers

Do you choose boredom or suffering?

Madame de Staël, a French-Swiss champion of women’s rights and a major opponent to Napolean from the late 1700s said, “One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.”

Wayseers have very low tolerances for boredom. We are sensation seekers. We crave action and excitement. In fact we don’t just crave action … we need it.

So if Madame de Staël is right – and I believe she is – our Wayseer temperaments, which drive us to avoid boredom at all costs, also drive us straight into suffering. We suffer because we can’t stand to be bored.…

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Jun
17
2010
for Wayseers // Trouble for Troublemakers

Education’s Epic FAIL…

Class-of-2010-Epic-FAIL
No jobs for a misled, mis-educated generation.
According to The Wall Street Journal, hundreds of thousands of new college graduates are entering a work force that has no use for them. While two million U.S. college grads remain unemployed, kids with $200k educations are competing for jobs waiting and busing tables, delivering pizzas, serving as bouncers at night clubs and baristas at Starbucks. Those who’ve gone the distance to earn Ivy League law degrees may be joining other Ivy League law grads working as census takers, file clerks, and substitute teachers. Sorry Class of 2010, your education has failed.

If you’re a recent college grad, you’ve likely spent your entire academic life training to be irrelevant in our new economy. Not only that but you’re likely to be tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt for an “education” whose economic bubble just burst.

It’s not your fault. It’s not your teachers’ fault. It’s our education system’s fault, which – like all industrial era machines – keeps churning out students just the …

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Mar
23
2010
ADD & ADHD // Ask Garret // for Wayseers

Is being a Wayseer often widespread within a family?

Q: “Is being a Wayseer often widespread within a family?”

My Answer: Yes. Being a Wayseer has been shown to run in families. One gene associated with being a Wayseer is DRD4 7R, which runs in families. It is a genetic trait that has been shown by the human genome project to be a positively selected gene – meaning that over the history of humanity it’s been a good and helpful trait to have.…

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Mar
23
2010
ADD & ADHD // Ask Garret // for Wayseers

Through “The Wayseers,” I have gone from being depressed to being a proactive, optimistic, self-confident straight A student! … Where can I get more?

Q: “Hi! How are you? All your information is amazing!!! I have used your tips and suggestions and they have effectively helped me turn my pain into power. I am now pursuing a degree in child and youth care. I have gone from staying in bed, going through the motions and having no sense of normalcy, to a proactive, optimistic, self-confident straight A student! I now have hope and a new way of living… THANK YOU!!! I am doing a stigma reduction/reframing disabilities project. I am wondering if you have information more specific to stigma reduction and ADD, and if you know any other Wayseers who might be interested in working with me on this? Thank you so much, again for everything.”

My Answer: Glad to hear it! You can find a great community working on issues like those and a whole lot more information on stigma reduction and how to harness strengths unique to Wayseers inside Wayseers.org. There is a large and growing community of people inside Wayseers.org who are focused on how …

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Feb
24
2010
ADD & ADHD // Adult ADD // for Wayseers

Secret to U.S. Olympic Gold = ADHD?

Secret to U.S. Olympic Gold = ADHD?
Why does it seem like the unique qualities of Olympic superstars are also the very symptoms of ADHD?

With the impulsive and “reckless” Bode Miller — who has been known to be easily distracted with partying and socializing — winning another Olympic gold medal, right on the heels of Shaun White’s hyperactive and rebellious display of loose-cannon greatness. It all may start to make you wonder if the qualities of impulsiveness, hyperactivity, “unnecessary” risk-taking, and rebellion — all normally associated with ADHD — may also be the keys to success for U.S. Olympic superstars. Michael Phelps speaks openly about his ADHD diagnosis; and it seems that instead of being something he had to overcome, his symptoms of ADHD, like abundant energy, restlessness and hyper-focus, may have given him a supernormal capacity to triumph as an Olympic athlete.

ADHD — long viewed as a disability — is proving itself to be quite an asset in the Olympic games. Hyperactivity, thrill-seeking, recklessness, hyper-focus, rebelliousness and impulsiveness — all primary “symptoms” of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder are proving …

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    Q: As I have found myself becoming more connected with The Way I feel I am beginning to notice how people who are in tune with The Way are not hard to recognize. I’m not sure how possible this is, but I feel like I am beginning to see the relations between other people and The Way. I encounter a lot of people who seem to be wayseers, but have not yet awakened to The Way. Is there any way to aid these future wayseers in finding The Way? What would be the best approach?

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    Q:Garret thanks for your site. I have just looked on the Internet at drd4r for the first time and am excited that my brain makes sense now and the answer to my issue is dopamine. I am not ADHD, I am hypomanic. Was wondering if you could direct me to any articles on the difference between drd4r, and drd4 with C allele for hypomania. I have not read your book yet but after thousands of sleepless nights have to agree that the only way I can control myself living with this bizarre chemical cocktail is to make every moment about love. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

    My Answer: I wouldn’t worry much about the DRD4 allele specifics as of yet, because there are some very immediate and powerful psychological and lifestyle extrapolations we’ve already made in the book which are just plain helpful and practical for someone who is hypo-manic. Once you’ve benefited from that “low hanging fruit” then you might find digging deeper into the genetics to be an added benefit.
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