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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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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. The book is packed with science-based strategies and concrete examples, plus downloadable practical tools for creating your own personalized action plan. Whether on the job or at home, you can get more done with less stress. See also the authors' Smart but Scattered parenting guides, plus an academic planner for students and related titles for professionals. Read more


Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Guilford Press; Reprint edition (December 22, 2015)


Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 22, 2015


Language ‏ : ‎ English


File size ‏ : ‎ 8103 KB


Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled


Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported


Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled


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Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled


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    • Improvement with everyday life skills
I’ve had this book on my book shelf since January of 2019 and just got around to reading it. What a mistake. I wish I would have started it right away. I’m just glad I finally read it. Don’t hesitate. This books highlights the main 12 skills that we use in everyday home and work life. It’s starts with a questionnaire that (if you are honest with yourself while completing the questionnaire) will tell you what skills are your strengths and which are your weaknesses. It also directs you to do one for work and one for home. Most of us react differently to situations at work than we would at home. Let me start by saying that before reading this book, I couldn’t figure out why I was struggling with time management despite all the systems I had in place and other things that I tried to improve it to no avail. It turned out it was task initiation (procrastination on a particular task) I was struggling with not time management. I was working on improving the wrong skill. Some skills are even have multiple skills embodied in them. A few are even split in two areas where a different set of skills are used for each. Organization for example, has two areas. Creating systems and maintaining them. I’ve always been great at creating organization but not so good at maintaining them. Creating systems uses three skills that are my strengths while the maintenance portion uses skills that are my weaknesses. It was a complete eye-opening read for me. I learned a lot about myself (and other people) and why I was struggling in certain areas and was so good in other areas. So make sure you read/listen to every chapter. Even if you aren’t struggling with that particular skill, there are things to learn about it. You will also learn a lot about other people, be able to identify skills they might be struggling in and adjust how you react to them. But with that being said, the book gave great explanation and lots of strategies and implementation steps to help create plans to improve in all the skills. There are action plan forms in the book that you can download from their website so you can print them as needed. Each chapter is laid out in the same order and gives real world examples to connect the information provided in the chapter. There are lots of additional resources listed like books, websites and apps to assist with that skill. The Smart But Scattered Guide to Success version is for adults. However, they have written other smart but scattered books specifically for school aged children and teens. I would have loved to have these books when I was raising my kids to be adults. A must for every person/family. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 13, 2022 by Aqualung
    • FANTASTIC - helps readers really understand how their brain works & how to use it to their advantage
This book was highly recommended by a therapist who knew that I needed to get down to the how and why my brain works the way that it does. The book takes the reader on a journey through understanding their brain, understanding the impact of their brain on daily life, recognizing and developing strategies for individual skills, and preparing for the future with the same ol' brain. I recommend this book to pretty much everyone, not just those with obvious executive function deficits. 10/10 Will read again! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 30, 2022 by Tilly
    • Great but…
Great book in theory but if you really need this book… you are probably the kind of person that won’t actually use this book. I mean you will sit down with full intentions to do it but get distracted midway through say oh maybe I need to do that book again about a week later and then completely forget about it. 😂 ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 3, 2021 by chloe
    • Pretty Good
I was in a bike accident on Dec19 2003 , NO HELMET struck a community style/apartment type mailbox at about 35-40 mph changed my life 8 broken ribs, 8 fractures left leg /ankle, fractured c4 vertebrae, 5 skull fractures w 3 subderal hematomas(Serious TBI) - 12 weeks coma. The team of DR.'s upon release kept telling me my likely biggest impacts would be to my Executive skills they were correct as it has taken me 15+ years to get back to what I consider 95% normal Executive Functions . This book helped me analyze and put into place practices that I use daily . Would recommend for those in your life who might suffer from mild to moderate TBI and have no means of ongoing professional therapy ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 18, 2020 by Floyd T. Turbo
    • The answer to my ADHD needs
As an adult with ADHD, I struggle especially at work, which can have me in tears when things are difficult for me. Information written for school children has not been at all helpful for me. I found this book and literally my life has changed! I have found both helpful information and so many useful strategies. Wish I had known about this years ago, it would have saved a lot of struggling. Thank you, thank you to the authors. By the way, I have also heard them speak on video, well worth it if you get the chance. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 14, 2021 by elaine
    • Incredible book
My kid is absolutely the one 11yr old that can’t complete simple tasks. I love this book for making that okay and helping me see from his perspective. His brain is rad and we’ve made so much progress since I gained this knowledge 🥰
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 17, 2022 by Betty
    • I loved it! Very useful and helped me gain insight
I highly recommend this book to anyone with issues with attention, getting started, or keeping at something. My self-esteem has been steadily decreasing over the years because I find my capacity to get things started, remain attentive, and get the details right has been waning. It has impacted me both at home and at work. This book (part informational, part workbook) gave me a ton of insight into my executive skills strengths and weaknesses and how I might improve little by little. It’s actionable and it doesn’t promise miracles. I deducted a star just because I felt the last chapters about how to address particular skill weaknesses could have been a bit more extensive. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 1, 2020 by Amazon Customer
    • repetitive
Make a plan, set phone reminders on phone, get family/friends involved, short goals and breaks and rewards. It's the same advice in all sections of the book with some client stories thrown in for specifics. (Just gave you half the book right there.) So.... not a good book for solutions. The book IS good for a general understanding of executive function skills and how they are often presented in reality, many times with a pairing of a positive trait. For example, if you are often late and have a hard time keeping track of time, you are more likely to be a flexible person and able to adapt to things. Someone who is always on time may be less flexible and less adaptable, in that one minor thing can ruin their entire day and the rest of their schedule. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 10, 2021 by Lexy Habeck

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