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<p>Hands up (again) all our favourite “I think I might have ADHD” people 🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️</p><p><br></p><p>For a lot of us, finding an explanation for things we’ve struggled with can be a huge relief. But a diagnosis doesn’t neatly absolve responsibility. </p><p><br></p><p>In last years Fink Tank about ADHD, we talked about the subtle difference between an explanation and an excuse. </p><p><br></p><p>It prompted more conversation, in the comments and real life, than perhaps any other episode last year. Clearly it’s a distinction people grapple with.</p><p><br></p><p>In today’s chat, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/#"><strong>Col</strong></a> opens with two magnificently simple questions he heard from Michael Port. </p><p><br></p><p>Do you know what to do?</p><p>Are you doing it?</p><p><br></p><p>For those of us who were “gifted” children who now struggle to maintain focus or see things through, this is a disarmingly simple provocation. </p><p><br></p><p>Because often, ADHD or not, we know what to do.</p><p><br></p><p>We’re just not doing it. </p><p><br></p><p>Enter parts theory. </p><p><br></p><p>I play the appropriately uninformed sounding board while Col talks us through a mental model which explains a lot of very human experience.</p>