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Parenting has nothing to do with it!

Parenting has nothing to do with it!

Great talk on genetic influences from Steven Pinker

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Andrew Lewis
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ADHD Business Coach with 16,000+ hours of ADHD coaching experience

Steven Pinker, parenting has only a little to do with children’s nature

Great talk from a leading psychologist on how we are largely and significantly genetically programmed. Jump to 4:30m to go straight to parenting piece.

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Andrew Lewis is an Adult ADHD Coach, writer and founder of SimplyWellbeing. He has over 16,000 hours of experience in coaching over 600 adults with ADHD. Andrew helps entrepreneurs and creatives with ADHD thrive and achieve wellbeing and is always happy to have a free chat to discuss coaching. Andrew ran a major ADHD support group and even an ADHD diagnostic clinic for a while. Andrew is an adult ADHD Coach backed with business expertise from a twenty years career in software, from roles in programming, through marketing, sales at IBM, then to running a few software start-ups.

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