Your Executive Functions Are Weak. Here’s Why.
Up to 90 percent of kids with ADHD also have executive function challenges, many of which last into adulthood. But, what are your executive functions, exactly?
Broadly speaking, executive function refers to the cognitive or mental abilities that people need to actively pursue goals. In other words, how we behave toward our future goals and what mental abilities we need to accomplish them.
People with EFD struggle to change their behavior in ways that will make the future better.People with EFD often experience time blindness, or an inability to plan for and keep in mind future events.
They also have difficulty stringing together actions to meet long-term goals. This is not an attention problem in the present tense, but rather a sustained attention problem.Even if they try very hard, people with EFD will fall short and struggle to do the following:Executive functions enable us to function productively everyday.
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