The ADHD-Friendly Productivity Book

The book

If you have tried every productivity system and ended up feeling worse about yourself, not better, the problem was never your effort. Nina Brooks begins from a direct premise: most productivity advice was designed for a neurotype that is not yours, and recognising that changes where you look for solutions. Drawing on the work of researchers like Russell Barkley and communicators like Jessica McCabe, alongside current peer-reviewed ADHD science, this book addresses time blindness, dopamine, hyperfocus, and the specific friction points that no generic planner has ever solved — without shaming you for the friction.

What you'll learn

• Why standard time management systems are structurally mismatched with ADHD brains, and what the research says actually helps
• The genuine neuroscience of dopamine — where popular explanations break down, and what that means for how you pursue motivation
• Concrete approaches to long projects, email, and inboxes that do not depend on the working memory most systems quietly assume you have
• How body doubling, external structure, and hyperfocus management function as legitimate tools rather than mere coping tricks
• An honest, non-prescriptive look at medication, CBT, and ADHD coaching — what the evidence supports and what questions to bring to a clinician
• Why self-compassion is not softness but a practical component of sustained output for ADHD adults

Who it's for

This book is for adults who are diagnosed with ADHD, suspect they might be, or simply recognise enough of the traits to know that standard advice has never quite fit — and who are tired of systems that treat their brain as a defective version of someone else's. Whether you are newly diagnosed, mid-career, or decades into compensating, The ADHD-Friendly Productivity Book starts from where you actually are.