I don't believe the "worker bee" trait you mention has much correlation with executive functioning.
The way I've heard/seen it described in ADHD research is more that without executive functioning, putting together events in the past, applying them to the present, with a thought to the future outcome is the main issue. When your executive functioning is poor, your decision making is severely impacted because the ability to chain together past experiences with the current situation to chart a good outcome fails to come together.
So if you wanted to make up a situation in the past that isn't a 'school or workplace', imagine someone on the hunt, failing to correctly interpret signs of a dangerous animal nearby and take appropriate precautions, and therefore dies. That would be a failure of good executive function.
The traits identified in ADHD materials like these (below) are effectively a different way of phrasing the same outcome but those with ADHD may be lacking more in one of these distinct areas:
https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/chil...
The way I've heard/seen it described in ADHD research is more that without executive functioning, putting together events in the past, applying them to the present, with a thought to the future outcome is the main issue. When your executive functioning is poor, your decision making is severely impacted because the ability to chain together past experiences with the current situation to chart a good outcome fails to come together.
So if you wanted to make up a situation in the past that isn't a 'school or workplace', imagine someone on the hunt, failing to correctly interpret signs of a dangerous animal nearby and take appropriate precautions, and therefore dies. That would be a failure of good executive function.
The traits identified in ADHD materials like these (below) are effectively a different way of phrasing the same outcome but those with ADHD may be lacking more in one of these distinct areas: https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/chil...