A link between ADHD and entrepreneurship?

Really appreciate your videos. I resonate with them a lot. Thank you.

It's really good to hear ADHD discussed in this scientific way - makes a change from the usual narratives that circulate these days. I'm honestly surprised that people would think that actual clinical ADHD (not just high number of traits) would be conducive to being a successful entrepreneur with all the organisation skills and follow-through which is required to create and run one's own business. Organisation and follow-through are areas which are impaired in ADHD. I'm sure there are ADHDers out there who have the personality type, resources, interests and let's face it - luck- that allows them to create a successful business (with support from those around them and medication no doubt! ) but the positive stereotypes that ADHDers are creative, entrepreneurs, great assets to any company and so on, do a great deal of harm to those who can't excel in any of these things.

Unrepresentative samples are a problem with so much research, especially in the field of psychology. Better-designed studies would need to compare random samples of all those with ADHD (or whatever condition is being studied) with similarly-random samples of those without ADHD. As you highlighted there is also the question of the definition of entrepreneurship and if it includes limited forms of self-employment in the same bracket as large businesses with many employees it becomes meaningless.

a lot of self employed people are so because they can't hold down a permanent job working for someone else for some reason