Why Are We Telling Creative People They Are Sick?

Our world needs creative people. These people change things; they find solutions to seemingly impossible problems and make the world interesting. Yet, for some reason, because they often work differently from the way “normal” people do, we label them as having ADHD, Autism or other similar conditions.

What did Leonardo Da Vinci and Isaac Newton have in common? They both had what we call severe ADHD today. They struggled to complete projects; their attention was all over the place, and they often completely forgot to sleep. They worked all hours of the day and would go days and months researching a single topic and then dropping it because something else caught their attention.

I guess that many of you who read the above paragraph can relate to it. I certainly can.

The problem is, if you find your attention is all over the place, and you struggle to complete projects because, at some point between the start and the finish, you lose interest in it, you will likely be labelled as having an illness. But do you?

I don’t think so. I believe it’s likely you have a creative brain, and when you try to force a creative brain into conforming with corporate norms, it struggles. Following strict guidelines and processes is not how a creative brain operates. A creative brain likes to question…