Albert Einstein

Babe Ruth

It sounds to me that if some-one says that you have ADD you should consider it a compliment. In fact, looking at this very small list of possibilities it looks like without people with ADD, nothing would get done. Now let's take some of these famous people and see what they would be like in today's world if they were in school or trying to "fit in" at a job.

Let's take the first guy on the list, Albert Einstein. He didn't even speak until he was 4 years old so today they would have put him on Ritalin and locked him in a room with the learning disabled kids. Remember, he flunked 6th grade math. That's right, he could do calculus in his head but he flunked plain old math. So into the dummy class he goes and he is given a lifetime of prescription drugs.

How about Bill Cosby? Instead of becoming a comedian, he gets a job sitting in a tollbooth all day by himself. Day in and day out he just gives change. The problem is he can't concentrate on the mundane and he keeps losing money. So they fire him and tell anyone who asks them for a recommendation, "He's so slow he can't count to 50!"

One more: Walt Disney. He gets a job working in an office cubicle and spends his time daydreaming on what I refer to as "Mental HBO." Until his boss comes by for the 10th time that day and says "Walt, pay attention, stop day dreaming, start concentrating and get to work before I fire you!"

Marilyn Monroe

Eleanor Roosevelt

Abraham Lincoln

Ann Bancroft

Leonardo da Vinci

Napoleon Bonapart

Walt Disney

Nostradamus

Henry Ford

Vincent van Gogh

Galileo

Eddie Rickenbacker

Robin Williams

John D. Rockefeller

Whoopi Goldberg

Bill Cosby

Stevie Wonder

Pete Rose

Randolph Hearst

Thomas Edison

Beethoven

“Magic” Johnson

F. Scott Fitzgerald

George Burns

George C. Scott

John F. Kennedy

Benjamin Franklin

Prince Charles

Steven Spielberg

John Lennon

Winston Churchill

Danny Glover

James Stewart

Dustin Hoffman

The Wright Brothers

Lindsay Wagner

Pablo Picasso

Robert Kennedy

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Jim Carrey

Jerry Lewis

Charlie Chaplin

Ray Robbins

Steve Plog

Wait, I know I said only one more, but I'm on a roll! Babe Ruth gets a job as a CPA and his boss comes by his desk and asks, "Where's Ruth?" To which his fellow employees say that Mr. Ruth is not back from lunch yet and it's 1:15. "Tell Mister Ruth when he gets back to clean out his desk, we don't want anyone working here who can't tell time."

Hold on a minute.

I just hit writer's block because I'm trying to think of some very boring, timely, regimental, stick in the mud, left-brained people with good memories who are famous. Can someone give me a hint just to get me started? There must be someone . . . .

You see, if you evaluate extreme right-brained people only in left-brain environments you get the wrong picture. Let's reverse it. Let's take some left-brained people and see how they would fit into the ADD creative world. OK .

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