Dr. Ned Hallowell, a leading expert on ADD and noted speaker, gives practical advice on how to take charge of today’s super-busy world so that it does not take charge of you
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Find out how the pace of modern life has induced brain overload to the point where our entire society is suffering from culturally-induced ADD. Dr. Ned Hallowell, a leading expert on ADD and noted speaker, gives practical advice on how to take charge of today’s super-busy world so that it does not take charge of you.
Dynamic and entertaining, Edward (Ned) Hallowell, M.D. (HC 1972) explores how modern life has gone wild. The average manager handles more data points in one day than he or she handled in a month just a decade ago. Conversations are cut short and communication derails as constant frenzy becomes more and more the norm. This state of frenzy saps us of our creativity, humanity, mental well-being and the ability to focus on what truly matters. Without a system or a plan, a manager can spend a day or an entire quarter without spending ten minutes actually thinking. Run ragged by the multiple and simultaneous demands he or she must handle, today’s manager has almost no time to do what the human brain is uniquely equipped to do, namely think creatively.
Based on the article Dr. Hallowell published in the Harvard Business Review, Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart People Underperform and expanded upon in his book, CrazyBusy: Overbooked, Overstretched, and about to Snap, this presentation provides a step-by-step approach to unsnarling busy lives and moving to a calmer, more fulfilling life that is focused on our own priorities. Cutting deeper than the usual advice on how to manage modern life, which typically is just about getting organized and fulfilling potential by building on strengths, Dr. Hallowell addresses how to manage our three most valuable assets: time, attention, and mental energy.
• Dr. Ned Hallowell is a well-respected child and adult psychiatrist and the founder of The Hallowell Centers in Sudbury and Needham, Massachusetts and in New York City. The New York Hallowell Center specializes in diagnosing and treating cognitive and emotional problems in both children and adults, with particular expertise in Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD).
• Dr. Hallowell was a member of the Harvard Medical School faculty from 1983 until he retired from academics in 2003 to devote his full professional attention to his clinical practice, lectures, and book writing.
• Dr. Hallowell has authored 18 books on various psychological topics, including attention deficit disorder, the power of the human connection, the childhood roots of happiness in life, parenting, methods of forgiving others, dealing with worry and managing excessive busyness.
• Dr. Hallowell is a highly recognized speaker around the world and has presented to thousands on topics such as ADD, strategies on handling your fast-paced life, the childhood roots of adult happiness and other pertinent family and health issues. He has been featured on 20/20, 60 Minutes, Oprah, PBS, CNN, Dr. Phil, The Today Show, Dateline, Good Morning America, The Jane Pauley Show, The View and many more. He has been interviewed for The New York Times, USA Today, Newsweek, Time Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe and many more
Edward (Ned) Hallowell, M.D. is a graduate of Harvard College and Tulane Medical School. He lives in the Boston area with his wife and children. Each year the family spends one month at the aptly-named Lake Doolittle, where they connect and slow down. Dr. Hallowell’s web site can be found at www.drhallowell.com.
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Location: The Harvard Club, 27 West 44th Street (between 5th & 6th Avenues), New York City
Time: Registration at 6:30pm; Program at 7:00 p.m.
Cost: No cost
Organizers: Christina de Marval ’99, Barbara Morrow
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