Imagine having trouble with your memory, flexible thinking, self-control, and with simply just executing tasks through to completion. These skills are used every day to learn, work, and manage daily life. Without these essential mental skills, it can be very difficult to handle emotions, focus, follow directions, achieve goals and even set them, and the list goes on and on. Life wouldn’t be very easy and might end up even feeling not worth living.
Seth Perler, Executive Function, ADHD and 2e coach, started out as a struggling student himself. He struggled with school since the first grade and it was a downhill slope from there. Growing up, Seth never quite felt like he fit in and eventually lost motivation to continue to try to.
After a serious conversation with his family, something changed in Seth and he decided to push himself to finally reach out for help. After years of working with children at a minimum wage job, he ended up falling in love with his work and that’s when his journey of helping people all began. His mission now is to give parents, educators and others who help kids, honest, practical and unconventional approaches to helping complicated, struggling students.
On this episode of Success is Subjective, Seth joins Joanna to share the journey of his challenges he faced day to day for years, up until he learned what is at the root of student struggles; Executive Function. He has dedicated his life to educating others on this topic in hopes that one day education will become successful at empowering all students with everything they need to live a well-rounded life. Listen in for insight on Seth’s discovery of Executive Function and how he uses his struggles growing up to now help kids overcome Executive Functioning challenges, leading them to have great futures, despite the outdated educational systems failing to teach these things.
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