“Ten years ago, when my son Nicolai was 11, his doctor wanted to put him on medication for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. ‘It would make him less wild,’ I explained to my mother, who was then 85. ‘It would slow him down a bit.’ My mother grumbled. ‘Look around you,’ she said in Yiddish. ‘Look how fast the world is changing. He doesn’t need to slow down. You need to speed up.’ It was a surprising recommendation from someone who had never learned to use a microwave. But recent research suggests she had a point: Some people with A.D.H.D. may be naturally suited to our turbocharged world.” Leonard Mlodinow in the NYT: In Praise of A.D.H.D.