The kid is 16yo. Sent him to
Johnson Oconnor, which a bunch of you mooks might try. A day of testing to figure out how your brain works. Google the reviews and see how people have changed their lives. Back to my kid and Cappuccinno, he scored well on the 3 auditory parts of the test and high on the finger dexterity. He "could" do well musically. Could...has no interest.
Anywho, I would highly recommend the JC for you or your kids.
Hmm interesting.
I discovered GTD (Getting Things Done) in early college & it really changed my life. I had undiagnosed ADHD & couldn't figure out why I was bright, but kept failing classes. One of the key takeaways for me was learning that I need to have procedures to follow in order to be successful. If I am personally motivated to do something & I can either create or use a procedure - really, just a set of steps to follow - then I can generally do pretty well at whatever it is. One of my biggest problems was struggling with doing really simple things like the dishes, whereas I could work on a huge programming project non-stop without any issue...it made no sense. I use little procedures for everything now. Like cleaning the living room...it's overwhelming & drains my energy just
looking at the mess. But I have a simple procedure now, which I do in order: (compartmentalized...one thing at a time until completed)
1. Trash to trashcan
2. Dishes to sink (don't have to
do them right then, just move them in there)
3. Laundry to bin
4. "Return to home" - anything that has been pulled out & has a home, just return it back to where it belongs
5. Lost & found - if I don't know what the crap something is, it gets tossed in the lost & found bin to be figured out later
6. Press the go button on the Roomba to auto-vacuum the floor
I discovered that I am a very strategy-driven person. I top off both of my cars with gas twice a week, I clean up when I get home & before bed, I scan all of my snailmail into my computer & shred it on a daily basis, etc...that sounds a little uptight, but it's so quick to do little tasks instead of big ugly behind-schedule stuff like a week's worth of dishes that it's not bad at all; those become habit over time, so you don't really have to be focused on the maintenance aspect of it, it's just something you
do. I used to live in a pigsty, was a completely disorganized mess myself overall, was 50 pounds overweight, etc. I wouldn't so much say that I turned my life around, as much as I just learned the inner workings of life...pick a target, figure out a procedure to knock it down, then knock it down & move on to the next target.
So I definitely think that learning how you operate on a personal basis is super important because what is a complete non-issue to someone can be an
enormous struggle to someone else. And not just in how you get things done, but also in what motivates you & how you get motivated so that you can use that knowledge to work on the things you really want to do in your life.