Greetings Friend! This is on of our first Episodes, so it might sound a bit different than those you are used to already :) It was recorded on Febrauary 7th in 2022.  We talk about things like:  Travelling as a Neurodivergent Fire house delivery gear Being born in a multichildren family not diagnosed Being in a big city like Paris Do you think differently while travelling in comparison to being at home? Habits of peole who are not so aware Neurodivergents, Primal behaviours and hierarchies What are your models in your Life? What are the models? Identifying with characters in stories liek Disneys Raya and the last Dragon Sometimes it is just not possible for people on the spectrum to walk across the room and hug somebody

Greetings friends. Today we have an interesting topic to talk about. We start out with strong habits since Alex managed to publish on his Blog on 100 consecutive days AAAND: We started our Free Range Thinking YouTube Channel First w talk about Brandon Sanderson's 10 years Mindset and the AD(H)D instant gratification mindset inspired by this Video by writer and YouTuber Jed Herne How do we feel and think about the Babysteps? How doing a LOT of Babysteps in DIFFERENT directions is the Polymath approach aka - A Pile of Ants - A Bee Hive - The Drunken Master Steps That can mean: Walking AROUND a goal instead of towards it in a straight line Sneaky Sharon tells Alex the idea for the Fantasy Book we have to write. We got some Feedback: So Alex started with Yoga - The Yoga-App is called Asana Rebel On a party someone asked Alex: "I heard about aphantasia on your podcast" Then finally we takl about  Garrison vs Combat Mindset - An idea by Jocko Willink on the Huberman Labs Podcast (around 19:11) Working as a Chef with Gordon Ramsay Or FRT as a Food Truck Daily Reality Show :) HBO Contacts anyone? FRT is Consistency and Fun for us Adventurer / Explorer Mindset  Back to the military :) The German Military in the 90ies IBMs method "Capture the Hill" Premium Cola and Uwe Luebbermann as an example for a democratic company Hierichal structures are great testing grounds Autistic Person in the Air Force 24 as a theory as a tool for political influence  Some Neurodiverse humans are good at Red Teaming and Lateral thinking Sidedoors and Backdoors  Red Oceans and Blue Oceans Book Recommendation: Blue Ocean Strategy It does not need to be for everybody!

THAT Episode-Title is a mouthful! :-D And heeeere we are again with a new Interview Episode with Saskia Listle. First we have to say a little sorry: We were so engaged in the conversation that we totally overheard Saskia's connection had some hiccups. It's a minor annoyance but it should be possible to follow our conversation. How did you find out your brain works differently? How to see when the other one is maxed out Logical Aphantasia Learnings from being a Concierge in a High Class Hotel How to interpret and act on hostility? Yawning Is there a way to make yourself interested in things? How to get back into conversations you are not interested in. Why is it yawning? Because you are tired? Or because it is an inappropriate thing to do in most situations? Important: knowing yourself and your needs How to live in a collaborative startup household as a source for serendipity 24h watercooler conversations Accidents are frowned upon Dying is forbidden How much is on the  living together side and how much on the collaborating side? Don't have any unspoken norms! Get that stuff on the table - wants - needs - fears - expectations With HUMOR in it - it can be healthy Negotiating a personal manual for ourself The secret smell Saskia can't tolerate in the morning Here you can find out more about Saskia: 1. Saskia's LinkedIn Profile  2. Saskia's Podcast: Conversations with my Future Skills 3. Her Newsletter: the grey area 4. And her Website: www.saskia-listle.com Hybrid humans: is one of Saskia's and Sharon's projects  and PSSST: They offer BEAUTIFUL art on T-Shirts - like NFT-Shirts :)  Book mentioned: RANGE - David Epstein - Generalism

Greetings friends to Episode 4 of our second season of Free Range Thinking!  You can reach Sharon's via LinkedIn and Alex via Mail.   Curiosity is tied in Anchor important things with humor Studies about learning and laughing Is Memorizing useful or not? Giving speeches or keynotes to neurotypicals Hic sunt Dracones! Coach Laughing and fun in Martial Arts - differences between traditional martial arts like TaeKwonDo and more western ones like Boxing and Kickboxing Laughing while Sparring. And when people are VERY serious it gets even funnier Sharon's Yoga Teacher Voice 😀 The Yes-And Mindset Where is the point when people lose their open mindset ...There is the death of a thousand papercuts again Growing up in a very acidic and heavy household with JOY SQAUSHERS How did parents(couples) like that ever get together?? Who is more joyful - catholics or protestants? Emerging humor vs studied humor. Using jokes again and again Shadow of the Gods humor and neurodiverse implications

Here we are again with our second episode with the wonderful Matthew Bellringer going even deeper down some exciting neurodiverse rabbit holes! You can reach Sharon via LinkedIn and Alex via [email protected] Our Homepage is http://free-range-thinking.com/ find short Clips on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@freerangethinkingpodcast  Hyper Adaption  how we interact with the environment so it meets our needs and how it's Trauma related but not specifically Neurodivergent related "if we don't do THIS - bad things will happen" Hyper Empathy in autistic people and how we can manage other peoples level of feelings Differences between Masking and Hyper Adaption Hyper Adaption are the tools we use to mask Hyperlexia  and not saying "sorry i didnt mean that" Strong Language, Fast Thinking, Shame being strong but poorly coordinated ADHDlers are well in a crisis because we have PRACTICE with crisis :-) It is a threshold, a transmission point. Universal Design  Perceviing signals of change earlier can intimidate Neurotypical people We need categories and (helpful) words Preemptive selfjustification Object Permanence and ADHD Environmental Design We can create an environment that suits as or does NOT suit us How neurodiversive people might be more like chaos (not chaotic) and neurotypical people are more like order Another kind of asthetic Framework and flexible design Explore specifics and How people can play around with it Neurodiversity as an organizational benefit  Matthew's languaging around neurodiversities Links to Matthew - https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-bellringer/ - https://iaq.matthewbellringer.com - https://www.matthewbellringer.com

We start with a question about Self awareness and identity but also really practical. You can reach Sharon via LinkedIn and Alex via [email protected] Our Homepage is http://free-range-thinking.com/ find short Clips on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@freerangethinkingpodcast In German there isn't really a word for Self-Awareness How would you help people to find out what they are naturally good at? Intrinsic motivators from our childhood and how it was outcultured through family and culture Ask: "how do you want to feel?" Not what thing do you want to be or do Shownotes Glennan Doyle - Doctor Becky Family Dynamics How to teach kids to trust themselves Where do you dwell? How Alex ended upbeing some kind of Detective, somekind of Mac Gyver and some kind of treasure hunter. Areas of security and privilege We look for an alternative expression for "Death by a thousand papercuts" but: with a positive connotation How Alex came up with the idea for this episodes through a Wordpress writing prompt: Write about your first name, its meaning, its heritage and so on Identity as a Tag in the clothing Pronouns and identiy Gracious Patience :-) Our new definition for Death by a thousand paper cuts (and ChatGPT helped us with it :-D) Link to the mentioned Episode of We can do hard things with Glennon Doyle and Dr Becky Kennedy about internal family systems

We talk with our third and wonderful guest, Matthew Bellringer, about how to get over the barricades and work with individuals and organizations on complex and wicked problems socially, techy plus human relations. Matthew's neurodivergent Bingo card:   Dyslexia, ADHD and Autism Matthew changed how Sharon speaks about high functioning and low functioning. What is Atypical Autism? When you meet one person with autism you met ONE person with autism. If you are a problem for others you are likely to be diagnosed, whereas, If you are a problem for yourself - you are less likely to be diagnosed. So: Diagnostic factors for neurodiversion is how we annoy neurotypical people. If you are part of a neurominority you tend to distrust your internal state because the world tells you it is wrong. Differences between hard empathy and soft empathy. Strategies for how you can turn a "you are functioning in a wrong way" around? How to develop awareness how to integrate and practice sensory awareness into skillful self-expression. Fear with bureaucratic authorities up until being at gunpoint with the police because of neurodivergent behavior. Sometimes the right answer IS masking. The trick is having the choice! When you study psychology - how much neurodiversity taking place there already? Aphantasic - but also hyperphantasic in a way. Having proceptic sense in space - knowing the relative relationship of things in space without knowing how they look. How neurodiversity works in other pathways, other journeys and the analogy of the Schiebepuzzle = clusters are moving in the brain. Is it possible to recreate the creativity in adults? Flexibility in categorizing: Cognitive piles instead of boxes. We enjoy the puzzle of things that contradict ourselves. It's our kind of sudoku :) We become experts in our fields of focused interest, like elite athletes or musicians find pleasure in hours of training or practicing. When we are doing something different and succeed with it - THAT scares people. We internalize other people's feelings which leads to:  I learned to be afraid of it because OTHER PEOPLE are fearful of this Alex's observation:   Matthew sounds like Neil Gaiman!  :) And:  Neverwhere works as a great allegory for unmasking Our Downhill Parking:   Another way of Aesthetic and languaging around universal design Links to Matthew - https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-bellringer/ - https://iaq.matthewbellringer.com - https://www.matthewbellringer.com

“If it works for now: Milk the HELL out of it!” (Jesse Driftwood about tools like Journaling) Alex: The Idea of constant reinventions and evolving is much easier nowadays because with every new tool out there you can build upon the last steps.  Some tools we talked about:  - Zettelkasten - Obsidian - Drafts - Evernote - for the more librarian-like type - Notion - more for people on the architect-side of knowledge work  - Obsidian - gardeners and those who want Zombie-proofed vaults :) There is NO MAGIC BULLET that solves all your problems, tasks or whatever for you  Sharon played around with ChatGPT for a proposal and found it is a GREAT tool to start on a blank page with an inspiration Sharon’s using ChatGPT like a “thinking dance partner” Alex likes to call ChatGPT Captain obvious :) It is a bit like the neurotypical answer so that you can ADD the Neurodivergent things to it Interesting and fun ways to use ChatGPT  Would you rather type with a tool like ChatGPT or talk to it - and let it generate the result in print later? Voice Dream Reader as a tool that reads books and articles aloud for you almost like an audiobook Professor Alex's historical view on knowledge-technology like reading :) How to use tools like ChatGPT constructively against Hate Speech Links in this Episode Jesse Driftwood and Levi Allen’s Podcast  The Make Stuff Club zettelkasten.de - english community about and introduction to the digital zettelkasten-method and the digital tool thearchive antinet.org - english site about the analog / paper based method to the zettelkasten Antinet Reddit - english Community about the method Douglas Adams 3 rules of technology

A (meta)-conversation with our Guest Torsten TROJA Jacke  - About High Sensitive People, Polymaths, Neurodiversity in Companies and so much more  Aaaaaand this here is our biggest Experiment - yet!  This whopping 3:15 hours Episode has two parts:  1. The first part is in English - Sharon and Alex talk about a conversation they had with their second guest Torsten Roman Jacke - aka Troja Aktivist42.  2. And since that conversation was in german we appended the German talk after the English episode at 1 hour and 28 minutes.   Please enjoy Sharon butchering the German grammer!  ;D So please tell us if you listened to the German version as well and what you think about our meta-conversation ;)  You can reach Sharon via her Linkedin Profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-leigh-pp4l/ and Alex via e-mail: [email protected]. Aaaaand here are the show notes!: Alex tries to explain the concept of Flachwitze really briefly and unsuccessfully :)  How was it to follow the German conversion with an ADHD Brain? Key Takeaway Alex: Neuro-Utopia Experiment was to bring people together DEI - Diversity Inclusion Companies are saying: How can we make money from these new-fangled Neuro diversities? We think: How can we help stop the usual “profiting on the backs” of the maginalized? Moving the needle on ND Culture in a whole culture Book Recommendation: Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell …….Back to Torsten Roman Jacke 🙂 Avalanche of Change What does Sharon think about Troja’s differentiation of high sensitive and high sensible people? Think how powerful it would be if Tom Cruise’s Maverick in Top Gun would be shown as an ADHD or autistic person! The Problem with Neurotypical stories and storytelling The town of Bethel inside the city of Bielefeld Supermarkets in France who turn lights and music down on ND days Why don’t people analyze themselves? Alex’s rant about a family member telling his daughter “The seriousness of life begins now with school”  ..and Sharon’s advice  :)

Greetings Friend! Heeeere we are again 🙂 This is our second season in 2023 and we explain in the intro why and when there are still a lot of episodes coming from season one :) In this episode we are talking about which new years resolutions of other people Alex adapted, since he does’nt believe in new year resolutions but silly like to use them as inspiration. We asked ChatGPT an interesting question: Why is it so hard for people with ADHD to finish things And the quality of the answer might surprise you. Sharon shares her Tips and tricks for finishing things with ADHD The concept of Paying in Energy (Spoons) https://happiful.com/what-is-the-spoon-theory/ Alex often struggles with finding preparation time Sharon's mom always said: "You don't need to put your foot on the gas - just take your foot off the brake" Give yourself Permission to experiment Sharon would like to experiment with AI generated music Take the time to show you care Baselines and Cheat days If we are not aware of something how can we reduce it, accomplish it, know what we want out of it or what we prefer? The plan: Writing a MANUAL FOR YOURSELF Sharon is an Ambience Alchemist - being HSP helps her A LOT Key for Finishing for Alex: #1 is Reducing Friction Alex Experience with Micronutrients Bloodanalysis and Back on Keto diet, YAY! How Alex beautified his physical and digital workspace ChatGPT’s answer to the question: How do you keep humans from using ChatGPT in a shitty way? Links we talked about: Tim Ferriss and Mark Manson https://tim.blog/2022/12/30/mark-manson/ Steve-O and Casey Neistat and how they work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdZqvkWaYaE Sharon's and Saskia's ☕️🍰 Hybrid Humans Café! https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86275907540