The ADHD Skills Lab
The ADHD Skills Lab
Skye Waterson
Why ADHD Founders Quit at Exactly the Right Time
32 minutes Posted Jul 22, 2026 at 11:00 am.
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Every founder with ADHD has wondered whether they quit too early. A 2024 foraging study unexpectedly suggests the opposite may sometimes be true. Researchers built an experiment expecting ADHD traits to be a disadvantage, and instead discovered the average person stayed too long. Skye and Robert explore what that means beyond the lab, why ADHD may be an advantage during the exploratory stage of entrepreneurship, why pivoting is not always a flaw, and why the same trait can become either a str...