Finding well known figures with diagnosed or suspected ADD is not hard. Take a look at this constellation of leaders who, by their own description or by the description of others close to them, struggled with attentional disorders. Now consider how these used and channeled their creative and unusual minds to become different kinds of leaders. How do you see yourself? Which kind of leader might you admire and who might you be most like?

Albert Einstein (great physicist and theorist for whom school was troubling)
Terry Bradshaw (great athlete--mythic football status)
Amelia Earhart (First famous female pilot, flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean.)
David Neelman (entrepeneurial founder of JetBlue)
Ludwig Beethoven (groundbreaking composer, some of whose greatest pieces were composed when he became totally deaf)
Abraham Lincoln (no description needed)
John F. Kennedy (no description needed)
WB Yeats (one of the 20th century's greatest poets)
Galileo (iconoclastic renaissance scientist)
Salvador Dali (Eecentric Spanish surrealist artist)
Winston Churchill (brash, cigar chomping leader of England during WWII)
Will Smith (actor)
Eleanor Roosevelt (First Lady of the United States, advocate for civil rights.)