Frenzied executives who fidget through meetings, miss appointments, and jab at the elevator’s “door close” button aren’t crazy. They’re suffering from a newly recognised neurological phenomenon called Attention Deficit Trait (ADT). Marked by distractibility, inner frenzy, and impatience, ADT prevents managers from clarifying priorities, making smart decisions, and managing their time. This insidious condition turns otherwise talented performers into harried under achievers. And it’s reaching epidemic proportions.

ADT isn’t an illness or character defect. It’s our brains’ natural response to exploding demands on our time and attention. As data increasingly floods our brains, we lose our ability to solve problems and handle the unknown. Creativity shrivels; mistakes multiply. Some sufferers eventually melt down.

How to control ADT’s ravaging impact on performance?  Foster positive emotions. Take care of your brain by getting enough sleep, eating health food, and meditate regularly. Regular meditation practice lessens the ADT factor.  Meditation calms the body and mind. Anxiety, headache, hypertension, fatigue can be managed effectively. Meditation increases physical energy, mental efficiency, creativity, calmness, memory, intellect, psychic power and intuitiveness. Meditation if practiced regularly can help vanquish the ADT demon before it can strike.