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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
  • By: Peg Dawson EdD, Richard Guare PhD
  • Narrated by: Randye Kaye
  • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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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

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Clear and co concise

Wonderful tools to help those with Executive Function Disorders and everyone else too. Thank you.

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Very helpful

I have ADHD and found this audible book to be really good. Easy listening for me. Great explanations and strategies as well as referencing to research and materials, as expected from the expert authors. Thank you.

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Practical advice - worth a listen

I really enjoyed this book full of practical tips that ANYONE should be able to adopt. The topics are backed up by professional experience and reference to research. This is a great "Go to" book for anyone who may want to improve on one, or perhaps many areas of thier lives.

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Monotonous delivery very hard to listen to

This book does not appear to be a good fit for Audible with a machine like voice devoid of any emotion, whilst starting out with an incredibly hard to listen to questionnaire that doesn't make sense at all in this format. Will seek a return.

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