My instincts move in very distinct, no pun intended, patterns these days. I've always felt a problematic relationship with impulse and instinct. I want to jump when the starting gun fires. I always want to run with that impulse.

This obsession is the essence of my attention deficit disorder , and the focus is always either on the most recent thing to come into my periphery or something that has become a central habitual component that is like a broken-record impulse that occurs approximately as often as sex — every seven seconds, or maybe it's every seven nanoseconds, depending on whom you ask.

I've spoken a little bit around the country on the connection between ADD and creativity , and on teaching to multiple intelligences (since I believe ADD is tied into Howard Gardner's multip

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