Episode notes
• The multilingual celebrities with ADHD — Trevor Noah, Zoe Saldaña, Shakira, Michelle Rodriguez, and will.i.am
• Why there’s no scientific link between ADHD and polyglot-ism — but a lot of overlap in the traits
• The upside: hyperfocus, novelty-seeking, and pattern recognition
• The downside: the intermediate plateau, working memory struggles, and my own mix of dyslexia and speaking perfectionism
• A practical system for learning languages with an ADHD brain — language rotation, the “Lego” method, dopamine hacks, and outsmarting executive dysfunction
Welcome to the Spiral.
Keywords
ADHD