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ADHD and Working Memory: Your GPS for Life.

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The GPS Metaphor as a Coach

We're using visual images that we're activating in our mind and using them to guide ourselves. And then the second thing that develops a little bit later, is we start talking to ourselves,. As children develop, this becomes more private speech and becomes our mind's voice. We're doing two things to ourselves to create what people call working memory. It takes a lot of mental effort when you've got to get involved in something that's relatively complex.

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