Free Range Thinking - A Neurodiversity Podcast

Alex Recap of the Barcamp "Circular OWL Economy" Doughnut Economics - Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist Kate Raworth How Neurodivergents can play a key role in a curcular economy what competences and skills Sustain a high level of curiosity and inspiration Diversity around Washingston DC Making your own Sushi The Hawaiian Grandmother's rice cooking method Grandma's cooking methods are Recilience in action The primal aspect of outside cooking Downhill Parking a great sport for neurodivergent people

Hanna Gadsby - Netflix-Specials #Book : 10 steps to the Net Female Comedians Podcast with Glennon Doyle - Words and Languaging Interesting vs Important - NDs in the first group Gaslighting https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=1564530722&i=1000555544362 Alex Ressource of ideas vs executions Brevi Manu Store in Bielefeld Recharge - Hanna Gadsby A new definition of what's important Instigate: Fragrance Finder in the Store HSP are not in the targetgroup A dillution solution to weaken the smell Neuroscience and Car Companies Sense Workshop planting seeds and instigating conversations The "I don't care" is really strong in us Connecting Skills Specilization is for insects Ask people / Companie: "What is INTERESTING for you?" What is the difference between interesting and fascinating? Benjamin Zander - Work (How to give an A) https://youtu.be/qTKEBygQic0 Parking Downhill: How can we make "important" things more easy and interesting to us?

Greeeetings Friends! We start with a short and graphic ;) description of what is going on on the feline side of Sharon's household Alex shares a slightly dark story. The Story is about how a Neurodiversity like Aphantasia theoretically could lead to really bad implications. Especially for rehabilitation in Prison. How Montessori Teachers are trained in recognizing the neurodiverse skills in Sensitive Periods We should get a Montessori Teacher on the show. If you know somebody - please let us know: mail@alex-kahl.de Montessori in School Reading with ADHD and reading to each other and: Reading to each other Goodreads Account Sharon's segway into **Metaphors** Writing Prose Alex got a Typewriter - Olivetti Lettera 32 Book Wonderworks by Angus Fletcher https://amzn.to/3FC0pDl Yes and, we have SO MANY more opportunities for telling us anecdotes, metaphors, stories when stories can be annoying when they are overused Storytelling Bootcamp Not training the Tiktok Algorithm Digital Garden Metaphor Building Metaphor Tools how to write out the best metaphors to keep us interested Excessorize me drawings :) https://www.youtube.com/@excessorizeme Temple Grandin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Grandin who has aphantasia and got read a lot of books to you as a child - let us know your experience aaaaand: all you engineers and technical people out there: how are you working with metaphors and stories? Don't explain something to ALex like he is 5 years old :) Islands of knowledge Quantum physics and Exotic sicknesses like in HOUSE MD. imagine an auditorial learner with a blocked ear and forced to learn visually

Greetings Friends! In this Episode of Seasong 01 of FRT we talked about mistakes and resiliency. How do Kids deal with making mistakes When does the shame set in instead of curiosity? What kids can learn from experiments with mudpiles 0The importance of patience and time Design thinking Decision making Tipp / Tool: play GET LOST What stresses people out about decisions Buyers remorse Alex wristwach experiment - treasure hunting (also applicable to fountain pens, typewriters and much more :) Training out the mistakes Alex first class experience Canned decisions Making decisions with OCD Own your anxieties Training of low profile decision making Writing it down Differnet types of dyslexia - I just dont care Bought a REALLY good spellchecker for Mac Do what we can do **yes AND mindset**: it is SO important to be selfaware to make GOOD decisions Indiana Jones Mindset: It is an adventure and a treasure hunt the TRAPS are more interesting than the ARTIFACT! Youtube video about how realistic are treasure movies - an Archaeologist breaks down movie scenes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmKU44ZeuRQ Neurodiverse people and decision maing regretting a decision? When to experiment and when not?

Greetings Friend!  Yaay! We have a YouTube channel! And we love you to subscribe and share it!  :) https://www.youtube.com/@freerangethinkingpodcast So you can also SEE us in out cozy recording caves :-D So we got the inspiration for this episode from a comment on the YouTube Channel called "How to ADHD" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEHD8B33-wc&t=2s Alex often heard how he changed in the last years especially from his old friends Friendship making with Neurodiversions Prinz: Autsmus Pandemie / Ist Autismus jetzt In? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKWOyZr0QUg Celebrating the labels or dropping the labels How Technology can making friendshipmaking even easier The danger of online friendships all around the world Finding your tribe Culture of US High School Change your group of friends THe Courage to be disliked How to make / maintain friendships  What do I need in a friendships? Interestingness :-) Out of sight out of mind Life is already hard enough Don't make it harder for each other as friends Maybe we are suspicious to Neurotypical people Social anxiety  Tip: Abstraction Being social for my daughter Try PnP Roleplaying Want to come out and play? Let's have a coffee? Sharon's tip on ending social events. ## Links - YoutTube Comment - The courage to be disliked https://www.amazon.de/Courage-Be-Disliked-yourself-happiness-ebook/dp/B074TWG8V7/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_de_DE=ÅMÅŽÕÑ&crid=16F0OOEC335VL&keywords=courage+to+be+disliked&qid=1678638620&sprefix=courage+to+be+dislike%2Caps%2C273&sr=8-1

Geetings friends! This episode is from our archives after Alex's COVID Infection in 2022. In isolation he found out that he is an somewhat of an artist and has a lot of questions for sharon about the connections between art and neurodiversity.  Art in Isolation and Neil Gaiman Bullet Journaling Ryder Carroll Style (Who also has ADHD and his Book about the Bullet Journaling Method) Doodling in the night with Peter https://www.peterdraws.com - https://www.youtube.com/@peter_draws Drawing YouTuber Danny Gregory https://www.youtube.com/@DannyGregory Ales got COVID _and_ Creativity Alex Question to Sharon: When are you an artist? We are what we ever claim ourselves to be I am an astronaut! Tom Sachs https://www.tomsachs.com Where your passion lies selling artwork is not a qualification Definition of an artist someone who creates Geeking out about fountain pens and  refilling the cartridges with siringes Are left handed people automatically Neurodivergent? Neurodivergents are creative experts in hacking the system. Digitization  Life as art 2 Boxes of journals of Sharon's mom's journal what's the purpose of keeping Art / Archives / Journals Maybe: Evolution of our thinking Justifying yourself for your art and joy A dance with your self The best form of meditation:  Being in the now Are artists always neurodiverse persons? The invitation to play and make mistakes The art of people and fascilitation Moderating workshops Having Plan A, B and C The danger of forcing ideas on people Solution: Your bag of Tricks

We start with Sharon's next level French Pastry Leftover Recipe :) Followed by a brief recap of Sharon's trip to the NFT Convention in Paris https://www.nftparis.xyz Encouraging underwehelm Alex's conference tips for neurodivergent people Sharon is going to reengineer the perfect event for neurodiverse poeple Dissolving the Pitch Persona Sharon's profession as an Ambience Alchemist What are you willing to be surprised with? A project from the NFT convention:  Moonpage for writers - https://www.moonpage.io What might be the Facebook for the web3? Being a resource for a specific group other people that coaches each other curating the superskills, energies and inspiration Innovating the languaging and describing Butterflies and Bumblebees Alex Pig butchering re:publica Story Low Tech behind the scenes allows the Tech to flourish Give yourself selfpermission to make the switch to connect with the intrinsic motivation. Designing for all How to think like a connective Futurist Equality vs Equity - MacGyvering Tech for the infrastructure of change Planting the seed of selfvalue in Kids - especially Girls

How to see the Silver Lining in mistakes Being punished for doing it different Resulting in a self-doubt cycle Introverts and extroverts Ego and the protectiveness around us Do we have a headstart as neurodivergent? Make micromistakes every day Mistakes are a bruise - not a tattoo When Alex's daugther is twenty - what would he wish for her What resiliency tools would i like her to have Healing habits that are no longer useful, that are only in the neuronormative world Give people courage and helping them to explore Neurodiversity and name the discomfort When WE claim our superpower - we can much more easily accept that OTHERS are some kind of different as well and help them to use THEIR superpower without having the feeling that we are threatened by them Get us out of shame and give us pride! "Can't you just..." "If you would just do a bit..." Can you just TRY to do X a bit better" Find the usefulness in your Neurodiversities School System should have: Life as an essay - questions What did you learn on the job Why does it matter? What was good BUILD A RESILIENCY MODEL! Mining Sharon's experience and survial tactics Sitting on a goldmine of information of people who are marginalized People weren't happy before the pandemic

Being in a BIG convention as a human sponge NFT Event in Paris How Sharon prepared and organized a side-event to let people come to YOU One day AFTER the event App: Soundprint.co We should ask Sascha Lobo to be a guest How to thrive in loud places and at home Ignorance is bliss Libraries & Cafes Working with Music When Alex worked in front of a band playing in Red Rock Coffee in Mountain Dew THE CONNECTION WAS LOST HERE FOR A SHORT TIME :) Just so you wonder Work in Churches, Tiny Houses, Tree Houses and CASTLES Imaging working in Schloss Neuschwanstein  Hundreds of years of experience with solitude in monasteries Talking to interesting strangers and working while travelling Not being able to talk on the telephone when there are other people in the room Where do you work best? Alex: Working in a completely empty room vs. working in chaos and clutter Object Permance Needing visual clues Sharon's Studio back then in the Black Forest and the Bullerjan Oven there  Be careful when you let introverted people who live very remotely pick the vacation appartment :) The beautiful Bookstores Video by Max Joseph Live Housekeeping Session of two Neurodiversive podcast people :-D

Uh! This episode has a hidden intro :-D We started talking right away, dived into different rabbitholes and interluded the inro somewhere on the way :)  Have fun listening and we love to get in contact with you!  Write Sharon on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-leigh-pp4l/  or Alex via Mail at mail@alex-kahl.de  Here are some topics of this episode: Why smartphone Alarms are really bad as a Todo-List :) How to macgyver yourself to do stuff Find a new word / term für [[Neurodiversity]] like Alternatively Hardwired Level up human tech Womens tech neteork  How did you come up with alternatively hardwired? Core personal myth The snow flake method for Storytelling  by Randy Ingermanson (@SnowflakeGuy) Listener feedback - you have to turn off the inner judgement How to have constructive conversations Did you have any troubles to get through the industrialized school system? How easy from 1 to 10 is it for you to work in a 9 to 5 job Sketchnoting - drawing notes Getting Neurodiversity into schools The importance of Recipes and the Experimental Mindset Martial Arts lesson for the head Finding your Macguyverism through the catalyst of story MACGYVERGASM = The Ultimate Hack :) The Swiss Army Knive  The pride in solving something with unusual means Robotic competition leading to makers faire tech camp for girls Mentoring What would be the first things sharon would build with mentee-kids? Interestingness: Flying a drone vs looking through the eye of a drone Model bashing and Scratchbuilding Adam Savage build in a day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uS7A4x31PY Sharon's Dad building a complete Apollo Lander Spaceship Simulator in the garage Talking about Artist Tom Sachs who builds hiw own lifesized Space Missions from Plywood Alex is a tool user not tool builder How can we fascilitate the integration of people into our worlds

Just a short Greetings friend!

Greetings Friend! This is on of our first Episodes, so it might sound a bit different than those you are used to already :) It was recorded on Febrauary 7th in 2022.  We talk about things like:  Travelling as a Neurodivergent Fire house delivery gear Being born in a multichildren family not diagnosed Being in a big city like Paris Do you think differently while travelling in comparison to being at home? Habits of peole who are not so aware Neurodivergents, Primal behaviours and hierarchies What are your models in your Life? What are the models? Identifying with characters in stories liek Disneys Raya and the last Dragon Sometimes it is just not possible for people on the spectrum to walk across the room and hug somebody

Greetings friends. Today we have an interesting topic to talk about. We start out with strong habits since Alex managed to publish on his Blog on 100 consecutive days AAAND: We started our Free Range Thinking YouTube Channel First w talk about Brandon Sanderson's 10 years Mindset and the AD(H)D instant gratification mindset inspired by this Video by writer and YouTuber Jed Herne How do we feel and think about the Babysteps? How doing a LOT of Babysteps in DIFFERENT directions is the Polymath approach aka - A Pile of Ants - A Bee Hive - The Drunken Master Steps That can mean: Walking AROUND a goal instead of towards it in a straight line Sneaky Sharon tells Alex the idea for the Fantasy Book we have to write. We got some Feedback: So Alex started with Yoga - The Yoga-App is called Asana Rebel On a party someone asked Alex: "I heard about aphantasia on your podcast" Then finally we takl about  Garrison vs Combat Mindset - An idea by Jocko Willink on the Huberman Labs Podcast (around 19:11) Working as a Chef with Gordon Ramsay Or FRT as a Food Truck Daily Reality Show :) HBO Contacts anyone? FRT is Consistency and Fun for us Adventurer / Explorer Mindset  Back to the military :) The German Military in the 90ies IBMs method "Capture the Hill" Premium Cola and Uwe Luebbermann as an example for a democratic company Hierichal structures are great testing grounds Autistic Person in the Air Force 24 as a theory as a tool for political influence  Some Neurodiverse humans are good at Red Teaming and Lateral thinking Sidedoors and Backdoors  Red Oceans and Blue Oceans Book Recommendation: Blue Ocean Strategy It does not need to be for everybody!

THAT Episode-Title is a mouthful! :-D And heeeere we are again with a new Interview Episode with Saskia Listle. First we have to say a little sorry: We were so engaged in the conversation that we totally overheard Saskia's connection had some hiccups. It's a minor annoyance but it should be possible to follow our conversation. How did you find out your brain works differently? How to see when the other one is maxed out Logical Aphantasia Learnings from being a Concierge in a High Class Hotel How to interpret and act on hostility? Yawning Is there a way to make yourself interested in things? How to get back into conversations you are not interested in. Why is it yawning? Because you are tired? Or because it is an inappropriate thing to do in most situations? Important: knowing yourself and your needs How to live in a collaborative startup household as a source for serendipity 24h watercooler conversations Accidents are frowned upon Dying is forbidden How much is on the  living together side and how much on the collaborating side? Don't have any unspoken norms! Get that stuff on the table - wants - needs - fears - expectations With HUMOR in it - it can be healthy Negotiating a personal manual for ourself The secret smell Saskia can't tolerate in the morning Here you can find out more about Saskia: 1. Saskia's LinkedIn Profile  2. Saskia's Podcast: Conversations with my Future Skills 3. Her Newsletter: the grey area 4. And her Website: www.saskia-listle.com Hybrid humans: is one of Saskia's and Sharon's projects  and PSSST: They offer BEAUTIFUL art on T-Shirts - like NFT-Shirts :)  Book mentioned: RANGE - David Epstein - Generalism

Greetings friends to Episode 4 of our second season of Free Range Thinking!  You can reach Sharon's via LinkedIn and Alex via Mail.   Curiosity is tied in Anchor important things with humor Studies about learning and laughing Is Memorizing useful or not? Giving speeches or keynotes to neurotypicals Hic sunt Dracones! Coach Laughing and fun in Martial Arts - differences between traditional martial arts like TaeKwonDo and more western ones like Boxing and Kickboxing Laughing while Sparring. And when people are VERY serious it gets even funnier Sharon's Yoga Teacher Voice 😀 The Yes-And Mindset Where is the point when people lose their open mindset ...There is the death of a thousand papercuts again Growing up in a very acidic and heavy household with JOY SQAUSHERS How did parents(couples) like that ever get together?? Who is more joyful - catholics or protestants? Emerging humor vs studied humor. Using jokes again and again Shadow of the Gods humor and neurodiverse implications

Here we are again with our second episode with the wonderful Matthew Bellringer going even deeper down some exciting neurodiverse rabbit holes! You can reach Sharon via LinkedIn and Alex via mail@alex-kahl.de Our Homepage is http://free-range-thinking.com/ find short Clips on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@freerangethinkingpodcast  Hyper Adaption  how we interact with the environment so it meets our needs and how it's Trauma related but not specifically Neurodivergent related "if we don't do THIS - bad things will happen" Hyper Empathy in autistic people and how we can manage other peoples level of feelings Differences between Masking and Hyper Adaption Hyper Adaption are the tools we use to mask Hyperlexia  and not saying "sorry i didnt mean that" Strong Language, Fast Thinking, Shame being strong but poorly coordinated ADHDlers are well in a crisis because we have PRACTICE with crisis :-) It is a threshold, a transmission point. Universal Design  Perceviing signals of change earlier can intimidate Neurotypical people We need categories and (helpful) words Preemptive selfjustification Object Permanence and ADHD Environmental Design We can create an environment that suits as or does NOT suit us How neurodiversive people might be more like chaos (not chaotic) and neurotypical people are more like order Another kind of asthetic Framework and flexible design Explore specifics and How people can play around with it Neurodiversity as an organizational benefit  Matthew's languaging around neurodiversities Links to Matthew - https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-bellringer/ - https://iaq.matthewbellringer.com - https://www.matthewbellringer.com

We start with a question about Self awareness and identity but also really practical. You can reach Sharon via LinkedIn and Alex via mail@alex-kahl.de Our Homepage is http://free-range-thinking.com/ find short Clips on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@freerangethinkingpodcast In German there isn't really a word for Self-Awareness How would you help people to find out what they are naturally good at? Intrinsic motivators from our childhood and how it was outcultured through family and culture Ask: "how do you want to feel?" Not what thing do you want to be or do Shownotes Glennan Doyle - Doctor Becky Family Dynamics How to teach kids to trust themselves Where do you dwell? How Alex ended upbeing some kind of Detective, somekind of Mac Gyver and some kind of treasure hunter. Areas of security and privilege We look for an alternative expression for "Death by a thousand papercuts" but: with a positive connotation How Alex came up with the idea for this episodes through a Wordpress writing prompt: Write about your first name, its meaning, its heritage and so on Identity as a Tag in the clothing Pronouns and identiy Gracious Patience :-) Our new definition for Death by a thousand paper cuts (and ChatGPT helped us with it :-D) Link to the mentioned Episode of We can do hard things with Glennon Doyle and Dr Becky Kennedy about internal family systems

We talk with our third and wonderful guest, Matthew Bellringer, about how to get over the barricades and work with individuals and organizations on complex and wicked problems socially, techy plus human relations. Matthew's neurodivergent Bingo card:   Dyslexia, ADHD and Autism Matthew changed how Sharon speaks about high functioning and low functioning. What is Atypical Autism? When you meet one person with autism you met ONE person with autism. If you are a problem for others you are likely to be diagnosed, whereas, If you are a problem for yourself - you are less likely to be diagnosed. So: Diagnostic factors for neurodiversion is how we annoy neurotypical people. If you are part of a neurominority you tend to distrust your internal state because the world tells you it is wrong. Differences between hard empathy and soft empathy. Strategies for how you can turn a "you are functioning in a wrong way" around? How to develop awareness how to integrate and practice sensory awareness into skillful self-expression. Fear with bureaucratic authorities up until being at gunpoint with the police because of neurodivergent behavior. Sometimes the right answer IS masking. The trick is having the choice! When you study psychology - how much neurodiversity taking place there already? Aphantasic - but also hyperphantasic in a way. Having proceptic sense in space - knowing the relative relationship of things in space without knowing how they look. How neurodiversity works in other pathways, other journeys and the analogy of the Schiebepuzzle = clusters are moving in the brain. Is it possible to recreate the creativity in adults? Flexibility in categorizing: Cognitive piles instead of boxes. We enjoy the puzzle of things that contradict ourselves. It's our kind of sudoku :) We become experts in our fields of focused interest, like elite athletes or musicians find pleasure in hours of training or practicing. When we are doing something different and succeed with it - THAT scares people. We internalize other people's feelings which leads to:  I learned to be afraid of it because OTHER PEOPLE are fearful of this Alex's observation:   Matthew sounds like Neil Gaiman!  :) And:  Neverwhere works as a great allegory for unmasking Our Downhill Parking:   Another way of Aesthetic and languaging around universal design Links to Matthew - https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-bellringer/ - https://iaq.matthewbellringer.com - https://www.matthewbellringer.com

“If it works for now: Milk the HELL out of it!” (Jesse Driftwood about tools like Journaling) Alex: The Idea of constant reinventions and evolving is much easier nowadays because with every new tool out there you can build upon the last steps.  Some tools we talked about:  - Zettelkasten - Obsidian - Drafts - Evernote - for the more librarian-like type - Notion - more for people on the architect-side of knowledge work  - Obsidian - gardeners and those who want Zombie-proofed vaults :) There is NO MAGIC BULLET that solves all your problems, tasks or whatever for you  Sharon played around with ChatGPT for a proposal and found it is a GREAT tool to start on a blank page with an inspiration Sharon’s using ChatGPT like a “thinking dance partner” Alex likes to call ChatGPT Captain obvious :) It is a bit like the neurotypical answer so that you can ADD the Neurodivergent things to it Interesting and fun ways to use ChatGPT  Would you rather type with a tool like ChatGPT or talk to it - and let it generate the result in print later? Voice Dream Reader as a tool that reads books and articles aloud for you almost like an audiobook Professor Alex's historical view on knowledge-technology like reading :) How to use tools like ChatGPT constructively against Hate Speech Links in this Episode Jesse Driftwood and Levi Allen’s Podcast  The Make Stuff Club zettelkasten.de - english community about and introduction to the digital zettelkasten-method and the digital tool thearchive antinet.org - english site about the analog / paper based method to the zettelkasten Antinet Reddit - english Community about the method Douglas Adams 3 rules of technology

A (meta)-conversation with our Guest Torsten TROJA Jacke  - About High Sensitive People, Polymaths, Neurodiversity in Companies and so much more  Aaaaaand this here is our biggest Experiment - yet!  This whopping 3:15 hours Episode has two parts:  1. The first part is in English - Sharon and Alex talk about a conversation they had with their second guest Torsten Roman Jacke - aka Troja Aktivist42.  2. And since that conversation was in german we appended the German talk after the English episode at 1 hour and 28 minutes.   Please enjoy Sharon butchering the German grammer!  ;D So please tell us if you listened to the German version as well and what you think about our meta-conversation ;)  You can reach Sharon via her Linkedin Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-leigh-pp4l/ and Alex via e-mail: mail@alex-kahl.de. Aaaaand here are the show notes!: Alex tries to explain the concept of Flachwitze really briefly and unsuccessfully :)  How was it to follow the German conversion with an ADHD Brain? Key Takeaway Alex: Neuro-Utopia Experiment was to bring people together DEI - Diversity Inclusion Companies are saying: How can we make money from these new-fangled Neuro diversities? We think: How can we help stop the usual “profiting on the backs” of the maginalized? Moving the needle on ND Culture in a whole culture Book Recommendation: Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell …….Back to Torsten Roman Jacke 🙂 Avalanche of Change What does Sharon think about Troja’s differentiation of high sensitive and high sensible people? Think how powerful it would be if Tom Cruise’s Maverick in Top Gun would be shown as an ADHD or autistic person! The Problem with Neurotypical stories and storytelling The town of Bethel inside the city of Bielefeld Supermarkets in France who turn lights and music down on ND days Why don’t people analyze themselves? Alex’s rant about a family member telling his daughter “The seriousness of life begins now with school”  ..and Sharon’s advice  :)

Greetings Friend! Heeeere we are again 🙂 This is our second season in 2023 and we explain in the intro why and when there are still a lot of episodes coming from season one :) In this episode we are talking about which new years resolutions of other people Alex adapted, since he does’nt believe in new year resolutions but silly like to use them as inspiration. We asked ChatGPT an interesting question: Why is it so hard for people with ADHD to finish things And the quality of the answer might surprise you. Sharon shares her Tips and tricks for finishing things with ADHD The concept of Paying in Energy (Spoons) https://happiful.com/what-is-the-spoon-theory/ Alex often struggles with finding preparation time Sharon's mom always said: "You don't need to put your foot on the gas - just take your foot off the brake" Give yourself Permission to experiment Sharon would like to experiment with AI generated music Take the time to show you care Baselines and Cheat days If we are not aware of something how can we reduce it, accomplish it, know what we want out of it or what we prefer? The plan: Writing a MANUAL FOR YOURSELF Sharon is an Ambience Alchemist - being HSP helps her A LOT Key for Finishing for Alex: #1 is Reducing Friction Alex Experience with Micronutrients Bloodanalysis and Back on Keto diet, YAY! How Alex beautified his physical and digital workspace ChatGPT’s answer to the question: How do you keep humans from using ChatGPT in a shitty way? Links we talked about: Tim Ferriss and Mark Manson https://tim.blog/2022/12/30/mark-manson/ Steve-O and Casey Neistat and how they work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdZqvkWaYaE Sharon's and Saskia's ☕️🍰 Hybrid Humans Café! https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86275907540

00:00:00 - We wander in and introduce Nick Perry, Agile Coach and a neurodivergent human being 00:03:30 - Nicks Neurodivergent Launrdy List High Sensor Processing Sensitivity Sharper senses than 85% Downside: Working memory is super small 00:06:47 - can you forget on purpose? He flipped his personality and conciously changed to not be an arsehole The skill and curse to recall everything 00:10:30 - Nick to teacher in elementary school: "No, I don't learn like that" How was school for Sharon and Alex 00:14:30 - Alex Montessori experience as an adult 00:18:30 - Nick's mathematical observation of the world 00:20:20 - How it might have been for Sharon's neurotypical sister growing up together 00:23:20 - Aphantasia in the school system  00:27:30 - The upsides of Aphantasia and the compensations 00:31:00 - Neurodivergent are good improvisers 00:33:00 - When a teacher tells a neurodivergent to do what's in the book :) 00:36:00 - How schol was for Sharon with Dyscalculia 00:38:30 - Does it matter if you don't explain HOW you got to your soultion in math and other subjects 00:40:20 - Trying to make things happen is HARD. LETTING things happen is much more easier 00:42:25 - Too much sensory input in School very similar to ADHD in some regards Chemical reactions in the brain und pressure and fear 00:47:30 - Unlearn to get deeper into the unkown How to read books with ADHD [Blinkist Book Summary App](https://www.blinkist.com/de/) [YouTube Channel Procutivity Game ](https://www.youtube.com/c/ProductivityGame) 00:53:00 - The bone Sharon has to pick with Blinkist ;) 00:56:20 - The Problem for Alex with complete books and the solution in Zettelkasten Method 01:00:00 - How Nick reads and digest a book 01:03:00 - Neurodivergents add something to the tribe Sharons party story 01:06:00 - Maybe abilities that almost look psychic have something to do with neurodiversity London School of Psychic Studies Decoding Human Behavior and its obivous patterns 01:12:30 - Would it have helped you when the teacher would have explained the WHY? 01:16:30 - There are more of us out there and if you saw one you can't unsee it :) 01:17:45 - Being born in complexity: How do you use your tools as an agile working coach Complexity and Chaos and making sense of them with the help of high sensitivity Growth mindset, values and principles What is possible from here? [Cynefin framework](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynefin_framework) every moment like reborn and start from now agnostic what agile is 01:21:00 - Trying to make the unkown known chaos: JUST TAKE AN ACTION - see if you can find some knowledge the drowning example = get something floating instead of making a plan in Chaos the best thing is to take action fixed way of thinking vs growth thinking - do something unexpected Neuroplasticity

00:00 - Intro 00:01:45 Parking Downhill: Partnering for Neurodiverse Entrepreneurs 00:04:00 building something with the comfort zone of a loose structure 00:07:55 Stupid SMART Goals 00:10:33 Finding project partners für neurodivergent people Startup Mindset for TIme - win-win-win The "People who you would choose to be stranded in an airport with" hiring strategies of companies 00:19:00 We can teach you skills, but we can't teach you to fit into the company culture 00:25:00 Working with people you dont like 00:31:00 Learning through pain with Gordon Ramsay :-D 00:38:00 Dealing with high level baseline of  impatience 00:45:00 The power of Self-Awareness and Self-Editing Who are you intrisically motivated FOR The (good and power) of: What would people think? 00:48:00 Making mistakes is your job as a teenager: Diversification of Identity and self Being an instigator and support system Change a lot of people a bit or change a small group of people a lot You can't force individuals or companies to change Emergence Collaboration 00:56:00 Change companies to agile Future of Work Best example why agile has its flaws Alex ever heard 01:04:00 Sharon's best filter criteria for people to workshop with - open - curious - interested 01:17:00 Helping Groups to teach each other is the key to self-eduction Parking downhill neurodiversity and self-eduction Test projects for neurodiverse people

Here we are again with an interesting question: What is a baseline? What are your baselines? For example: ANGER How quickly do you return to your baseline / default? 00:04:20 - Baselines are formed in Childhood The Joy baseline:  Why am I not consictently happy? Being aware of the baselines:  Life consists of peaks and valleys - to return to. 00:07:30 - Is it that bad to change someone else? Change us or help us being more adaptlabe? 00:14:00 - Picking Mentors and Collaborateurs What is more problematic - where is the most suffering?  Family, worklife, friends - misunderstood - not the right support - using your feats right Neurodivergent in the worklife 00:18:30 - Default for Sharon is focussing on what she can do and how to hack it You can change your defaults.  Baselines are not so easy Logicking into a corner is a default 00:28:30 - Keep mentally hydrated Change the Buttons or the Default Behavior What's your Level of Selfcare? Keep baselines like Sleep, Nutrition, Relaxtion in check 00:35:00 - Difficulties in Neurodiverse Stuff A lot of Shame is involved Defaults for Sharon should be:  Curiosity and Amusement 00:47:00 - When did it turn around for Sharon? 00:50:00 - What when two different baselines collide Example: Not hearing so well can develop the  Superpower of being able to Read People  People bringt THEIR shit to the table we have no control over Default: - be curious - ask questions 01:03:00 - Hardwired Brains vs Neuroplasticity More Energy to process stuff = more sleep What if you have a hearing disability AND are a  auditory learner? 01:17:00 - Languaging around Neurodiversity 01:24:00 - Growing up in different high - or low functioning environments Base of Self-Value and Condifdence 01:28:00 Engineers and what is a good fit partnership for Neurodiverse Entrepreneurs Parking Downhill:  Being / becoming an Artist - with Neurodiversity

The Episode where we talk about growing up as a neurodivergent person in the 60ies aka "Sharon's Mom said..." :) In this episode we set out onto our conversational journey from a very special starting point: Sharon's mom and how she raised her kids very intuitively in the 1960ies and 70ies. When does a mentor become a mentor? 05:45 How was Sharon's' mom educated to be a Mentor now: collection of people How can you be critical thinking in a NICE way Sharon's Mom was also diagnosed with ADD 11:00 Her origin Story Growing up on a dirt farm in Texas In our society women are taught to sacrifice themselves Civil Rights Movement but never an angry protestor 22:10 She could make something out of nothing She was a great connector in DEEP connections Typing faster than you can think Reston (Washington DC) - Council for Exceptional Children Bringing stuff home and test them on Sharon and her sister Materials about feelings and emotions Asking really good questions Active listening Decision making You think EVERYBODY does that No TV: Read and discuss The Power to make other people do something Sister extroverted Sharon doesnt know what was natural and what was learned Dyslexia in your 30ies - Resilient - Hack Life Superpowers 38:15 - Having a Neurodiversity Catalogue We can hack Life What motivates us What triggers us Shame and Guilt as a Motivator Gunter Dueck - Dogs and Cats Sharon was taught to watch and listen It was life lottery Picture galleries in facial expressions Exposed to a very rich environment of neuro disablements 53:30 Knowing about where to find out more e.g. Sceptic Society How to teach children how to make decisions Ask: Really? Tell me about it "MAKE me believe!" Illustrating books The once no mommy 00:58:00 - Alex: Teach your kid Sign-Language before it can speak It does avoid sooo many conflicts Telling your kids why Teach the kids how to self calm 1:10:00 How to be a polymath administration writing dancing artist - painting photography Editing photography Improv Group Acting Survival Skills Her message: Centered on being - not doing Anything is possible - No Limits Every year: Family Retrospective - about family Values Kids aren't born judgemental YES-AND-Expert Learning: THE ART OF PEOPLE 01:22:00 Sharon got her bases through her Mom's Master's degree Being an artist Getting into the Training and Coaching field Program: First and experimental Program 01:26:30 Let's have a deep conversation and find out what we can learn Curiosity Tap into our core selves you can train the muscle of knowing what you want 01:40:00 General Assholery and thoughtlessness the 20ies are incredible narcicisstic and selfcentered times no punishing voices in her head 01:45:00 - Hyperphantasia lived in a self-punishing way Questions complete openess and understanding we are all equal Critical thinking and no judegement or bestrafung Trust your own judgement What do YOU want? What do you think is important? what do you want in the family culture? how might this be for other people and families? what was hard about it? what did that mean? (disability for example - Wheelchair, Blindfolded a weekend) Parking Downhill: A catalogue of Neurodiversities

Come in and get a front row seat in Sharon’s and Alex’s head! It is a RICH space in here! :-) Sorry about the crackling noises sometimes. That was Sharon’s Scarf on the Mic and Alex didn’t realized tzhat while recording - they were so deep in the Conversation. 00:00:00 Intro and why we haven’t got a proper Intro (yet) :) 00:02:14 - Parking Downhill: How can we be more inclusive with Neurodiversities or: How can we as neurodivergent include more neuronormative people? 00:09:00 - What if “the others” don’t know about neurodiversity and: A (possible) solution and Sharon’s Tools of the Trade 00:12:00 - What if you don’t have Time, Conversation and Listening - so: No kind of Trust 00:16:00 - There are patterns and stuff is gonna surface… WHEN you create an environment and keep asking quesions with an open mind 00:22:00 What gave us energy when we were kids (and why Sharon phrases the question this way) 00:23:00 - Why do we like mysteries so much? 00:25:00 - Hic sunt Dracones - Here be Dragons - in ourselfs - Maturity and settling down and: the 3 Curiosiuties 00:36:00 - Emotional immaturity and growing up with Sharon as a sister 00:38:45 - Getting people aware of the is something like Neurodiversity 00:39:30 - Are you controlling your emotions as well? 00:41:00 - Emotional differences between being a man and a woman in controlling emotions 00:44:00 - Couple challenges between emotional and rational partners 00:46:00 - Hypersensitivity and being logical 00:49:45 - Catpsychology: How Sharon learned as a kid to reflect on her own 00:51:30 - That is SO Montessori! 00:55:00 - The Laboratory of Life … and the right, curious questions that make you wanna talk: What do you think about today? 00:58:00 - Give people TIME to explore quesitons and: The Montessori Beads 00:59:45 - Compressed Time 01:01:00 - Derekt Sivers and his mocent recent book How to Live 01:03:00 - Inviting people into your world 01:06:00 - Share on! Sharon :-) and the explanation of Kalauers - we get Lost in Translation for a short moment :) 01:07:30 - Sharing inspite of imposter Syndrome and: Having it in my Head is ENOUGH 01:15:00 - Building a structure and storytelling for FLOW-states 01:21:00 - Behaviroual Econmoics how do we make the decisions that we make and HumanOS 01:26:00 - Renovate your Life: Midlife Crisis 01:30:00 - What are good open questions? and giving permission to challenging, negative emotions 01:35:00 - Parking Downhill: How did Sharon’s mother know all that? and are we going to make Shirts with: “Sharon’s Mom said ”

00:00:00 - Intro - The Parking Downhill Note 00:01:30 - Alex is haunted by a Washingmachineghost - live on the record! 00:03:30 - Note taking Systems, Stress and Anxiety coming from keeping a structural organization 00:09:30 - What does “work on your system” mean? 00:13:30 - How to use different times of the day for your individual energy-levels 00:16:45 - Give yourself jobs to your selfconcious 00:21:40 - Reading for calming down the mind 00:27:15 - How do you capture ideas when you are scared to forget them with ADD? 00:31:00 - Having our Tools of today as a Kid (and being ALLOWED to use them) 00:37:00 - Possibilities we now have with digital tools - without any romantic :) 00:46:00 - Fortunately the education system is adapting to ne new possibilites to learn for kids 00:51:10 - Learning from the naturally best teachers. And what it means to be a really good teacher 00:58:00 - Just imagine whar artists are capable of doing dotay 01:10:00 - How can we make digital tools more inclusive to everybody on every device but to Neuroodiverse people especially 01:20:00 - The idea for a solution: AI Translator that translate in realtime to any neurodiverse brain 01:26:00 - The fear of the unknown 01:29:00 - The reason why in Germany the police could get your kids to school and the problems with the digitalisation in modern educational systems

This episode starts with Sharon telling a story about Behavorial Modification with Bracelets. It turned out so fascinating, that we kept it in the podcast. Then we dive into a lot nutrtion-topics for neurodivergent people. 00:03:00 - Intro with Behavioral Modification with a Bracelet of Beads 00:08:00 - Sliding smoothly into the Maintopic Nutrition and Neurodiversity through Micromovements 00:11:30 - The distraction factor of nibbling and the general effects of Nutrition, Paleo diet, Low Carb and MCT Oil as Jet Fuel on the Brain 00:13:30 - Alex experiences with Paleo Diet, Reset Challenges and getting rid of a fridge by accident 00:16:00 - Nutrient Equality and some of Sharon's recommendations 00:25:00 - Nutrition in the Workspace 00:34:30 - What is your Food-Nemesis and how poeple suffer from it 00:37:00 - What about Dopamine_Baseline und Sharon’s mom’s nutrition strategy 00:46:10 - Snacks that are just designed to make you want more of it 00:51:00 - Dealing with Family and Friends when you change your Diet-Habits 01:00:00 - Parallels between the industrial education and food system -> Industrialized Humans 01:05:30 - Failures of our parents 01:12:00 Community Healers and Eyerolling 01:19:00 - Going Paleo and getting rid of the Fridge 01:23:00 - Override Impulse-Eating and Sugar in Kids 01:26:00 - (Self) Awareness as a Superpower #

Welcome to the first episode of Free Range Thinking - a Podcast which starting point is Neurodiversity and from there we - that is your hosts Sharon and Alex and you the listeners - go right off into the weeds and down different rabbit holes ;) One of our first goals with the podcast is to find some languaging and words around the whole topic of Neurodiversity.   So please send us your feedback, your questions, what you are experimenting with yourself, your experiences with Neurodiverstiy, your languaging around it and everything else you think we should talk about.  You can reach Sharon via LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-leigh-pp4l/ and Alex via Mail@alex-kahl.de  OK, let's go! Here are the Shownotes and the chapter-marks for our pilot episode WHOOOHOOO!: 00:00:00 - Why are Sharon and Alex doing this Podcast about Neurodiversity? 00:02:30 - Putting language around Neurodiversity by Sharon describing her ADD  00:05:00 - Alex take on finding new neurodivergent Features and learning about himself 00:09:30 - Which neurodivergent Feat did Sharon noticed first? - ADD, Dyslexia (Number-Dyslexia, the Aspberger Spectrum, Tourette) 00:16:30 - HSP Highly Sensitve Person 00:20:30 - ADD as a Superpower, Thinking really fast and the Scientist Mentality 0:24:45 - Painting a Map of Neurodiversity - Alex first Features he discovered. Drawing with Aphantasia 00:29:00 - Dealing with emotional people is hard for Alex 00:31:00 - Earning a degree and just BEING something. A Heart Surgeon for example 00:35:55 - Being a Polymath, Renaissance Person, Scanner Personality 00:37:30 - How the Internet helps being neurodivergent - e.g. because of Niklas Luhmann's story 00:42:00 - Spezialization - Being alive NOW - the effect of the pandemic on neurodivergent people and the bandwitdth people have to deal with right now 00:46:00 - The beautiful thing about podcast and going aaaaaaall over the places ADD-Style :-) 00:47:45 - Resilience is suddenly eeeeeverywhere - braught up by Neuronormatives 00:49:00 - IT SHOULD BE LIKE _THIS!_ - or should it? 00:55:30 - Reigning yourself in means you can't think freely 01:01:00 - Learning that you are on some spectrum and how to use it for your benefit without a lot of shame Aren't all people neurodiverse in some aspect or the other? 01:08:00 - How to break the grey, ultrastructured mold of society and how it is hard for neuronormative people to deal with diversity 01:13:00 - The value in scientific stories - Micronutrients and ADD / ADHD 01:19:00 - Neurodiverse Management and not all C-Levels are living by the sea :-D 01:24:00 - The ripple-effect of Life-Changes like  nutrients like MCT-Oil and Energy-Boosting 01:27:30 - Parking downhill for the next Episode:  Nutrition! 01:35:00 - Our thoughts on our first Episode :-D 01:37:00 - I AM A LEGION - or how Sharon's last name is pronounced in different cultures and languages :-D a 01:39:30 - We as Neurodivergent carve our own Path through collaborative learning by experimenting