Ted Rubin has spent his career doing the thing his childhood self would never have believed possible: walking into chaos and making it calmer. He was diagnosed with ADHD as a kid and spent over two decades navigating life largely without medication, choosing instead to figure himself out the hard way, one reinvention at a time. In his mid-thirties, he went back, this time informed enough to walk into a doctor's office and say exactly what he needed.
That diagnosis, generalized anxiety, gave a name to a lifetime of overanalyzing, absorbing rooms, and getting sick from thinking too much. What he didn't expect was that the same traits that made him miserable as a kid would become the foundation of his career. Ted has spent years in technical support and compliance work, the kind of work that requires seeing every variable in a system at once without losing your footing.
Colleagues have called him a compliance rockstar. He calls it the same overanalyzing brain that used to keep him up at night, finally pointed somewhere useful. Absorb This. is his first book. It grew out of a conversation with a woman at a virtual work conference who had just been diagnosed, late, and didn't know what to do with the word. Ted told her the only thing he knew was true. She cried. He decided the rest of the book needed to say the same thing, at length, to anyone else still waiting to hear it.
Ted lives with his wife, Carole, who gave him a reason to get it right.
That diagnosis, generalized anxiety, gave a name to a lifetime of overanalyzing, absorbing rooms, and getting sick from thinking too much. What he didn't expect was that the same traits that made him miserable as a kid would become the foundation of his career. Ted has spent years in technical support and compliance work, the kind of work that requires seeing every variable in a system at once without losing your footing.
Colleagues have called him a compliance rockstar. He calls it the same overanalyzing brain that used to keep him up at night, finally pointed somewhere useful. Absorb This. is his first book. It grew out of a conversation with a woman at a virtual work conference who had just been diagnosed, late, and didn't know what to do with the word. Ted told her the only thing he knew was true. She cried. He decided the rest of the book needed to say the same thing, at length, to anyone else still waiting to hear it.
Ted lives with his wife, Carole, who gave him a reason to get it right.
