In a follow up interview with Bob Costas, Michael Phelps and his mother revealed that he has ADD. They described how he discovered his passion and talent for swimming at an early age. He and his mother were able to direct his extraordinary ADD energies and concentration powers into his swimming career. Michael and his mother pursued his swimming career to tap into and expand his ADD gift of swimming. He was heard to say that he tried several other sports, but that the thing he really liked about swimming were the lane lines in the pool that gave him great focus on where to be. Other sports seemed too ambiguous or abstract. Their early recognition of his passions and talents for swimming, and their dedication to developing his swimming skills to their fullest has produced one of the most remarkable sports achievements in recent history. He has won 14 gold medals in two Olympics and I believe broken world records in all but one final event, and stands as the most decorated Olympic swimmer and athlete of all time. He has reached heights never before achieved by any other human. Michael Phelps extended the known boundaries of mankind, because he and his mother fully developed his ADD blessings. NBC correctly acknowledged the partnership between Michael and his mother for how they were smart enough to recognize his ADD blessings at such an early age and the concentrated effort and sacrifices they both made to develop and expand his gifts fo ...
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