Understanding Your Brain

You've tried to learn about ADHD before. Articles that oversimplify. Research papers you can't finish. Videos that promise answers but leave you more confused.

This is different.

Deep dives into how your brain actually works, written for brains that work like yours. No oversimplification. No academic gatekeeping.

For ADHD Brains
15 Topics
Read at Your Pace

Not sure where to start?

If you're new here: Start Here: The ADHD Entrepreneur's Guide gives you the full picture in 5 minutes.
If you keep losing time: Conquering Time Blindness explains why 5 minutes feels like an hour (and what to do about it).
If motivation is your struggle: Dopamine: The Currency of Motivation reveals why your brain activates differently.

Or browse by what you're dealing with today ↓

Showing 15 of 15 topics

Daily Systems

Accountability Systems: The Art of Resilient Follow-Through

ADHD isn't a question of whether systems will break down, but how quickly you'll recover when they do.

6 min read
Productivity

Strategic Adaptations: Designing Your Business Around ADHD

The most effective way to manage ADHD is not to fight harder against its challenges, but to design your business to require less of what you struggle with.

7 min read
Daily Systems

The Daily Framework System

A simple structure to organize your day without rigid scheduling. Build routines that support your ADHD brain.

6 min read
Brain Science

Dopamine: The Currency of Motivation

Why your brain craves novelty and how to hack your dopamine system for better focus and productivity.

9 min read
Emotional Regulation

Emotional Regulation: Navigating Intense Feelings

For entrepreneurs with ADHD, emotions aren't just felt. They're experienced in high definition, surround sound, and sometimes without a volume control.

8 min read
Daily Systems

Environment Design: Optimizing Your Surroundings

Your environment is either working for you or against you. There is no neutral space for the ADHD brain.

7 min read
Brain Science

Executive Function 101

The CEO of your brain is out to lunch. Here's how to manage without them.

8 min read
Foundations

Glossary of ADHD & Entrepreneurship Terms

Understanding the language of ADHD is key to leveraging your strengths and managing challenges.

25 min read
Brain Science

The Interest-Based Nervous System

Your ADHD brain doesn't operate on importance. It operates on interest, novelty, challenge, and urgency.

7 min read
Emotional Regulation

The Wall of Awful: Understanding ADHD Motivation

That invisible barrier between you and the task isn't laziness. It's a wall built from every past failure, criticism, and frustration.

7 min read
Foundations

The Physiological Foundation: Sleep, Diet, and Movement

Your brain is an organ. Its performance depends on the basics: sleep, nutrition, and physical activity.

8 min read
Foundations

Start Here: The ADHD Entrepreneur's Guide

Welcome to PoweredADHD. This is your roadmap to building a business that works with your brain, not against it.

5 min read
Productivity

Task Management: Breaking Down the Overwhelm

The ADHD brain doesn't struggle with tasks. It struggles with managing the space between 'what needs to be done' and 'actually doing it.'

12 min read
Brain Science

Conquering Time Blindness

Why 5 minutes feels like an hour (and vice versa), and how to visualize time effectively.

6 min read
Brain Science

Working Memory: Your Brain's RAM

Working memory is like your brain's mental clipboard. In ADHD, that clipboard is smaller and more slippery.

7 min read

A note on how to use these

You don't need to read everything. You don't need to start at the beginning. You don't need to finish what you start.

Pick what matches your current struggle. Come back when you need something different. These topics will be here when you need them.