We should start a club, where we fix all our problems and cope with stuff, and motivate each other... I have it all planned out it's gonna be great, I've even made most of a mind map detailing exactly how it should look.. I'm on Reddit right now, but after that's done I'll get to it later..
(This is a joke meant to be funny, but so painfully true and the same cycle I've been on for years.. it's almost a cosmic joke that I've/we've got the abilities and wherewithal but somehow don't follow through.. worst part is in those panicked moments we HAVE created objectively awesome stuff and that's how we've gotten by and KNOW we can do it. But it takes a crisis or deadline to sit down and finish.)
I completely understand that feeling he mentions of "I know I should do this, I know it's gonna suck if I don't do this now. But then still don't do it. I always figured that once I identified the 'inaction' it would be easy to correct, but it's weirdly not enough.
I imagine it's kind of akin to hard drug users who watch themselves making the bad choice, know it's bad but do it anyways.. except when I watch myself do it my payoff isn't even an awesome drug trip, it's just a bit of time on reddit, or YouTube, or tv, or "fapping".. don't get me wrong I love those things, but it's totally not worth the hassle later and I Know that, and yet I do it. (Even this very second I'm supposed to be working on my resume and LinkedIn, huge consequences, but here I am spending a few extra min to write this out... and for what? Lol... not lol..
You should look into dopamine addiction, all of those things you claimed weren't drugs, do in fact release a chemical in your brain called dopamine. There are a few psychologists out there convinced the "40-60%" rise in ADHD is actually just a bunch of dopamine addicts. We constantly check our phones, eat unhealthy foods, binge watch tv shows, all because we want that feel good affect that comes from dopamine.
I feel you. My "to read" and "to watch" project in Todoist is obnoxious and insurmountable... what's worse is my Pirate Bay collection of TTC lectures and downloaded textbooks. I've got more information than I could possible digest in months and months of not working... but I keep adding to the pile..
Hey I agree with you. That's def a possibility. But the larger issue, are you aware you responded, and I'm not kidding, 8 (correction: 18) *(second correction 59 times!)
*times with the exact same comment. I took some screen shots just because it was weird. I'm sure it's a technical error and not your actual doing. I just don't know what's going on
Oh no! I can't see more than one but yesterday it seemed that the Add Comment button wasn't working. I ended up getting frustrated thinking it wasn't posting and closed it.
Thank you for sharing! Seriously, that was an awesome talk, both for understanding "frontal lobe disorders" and for understanding effective business/groups too.
At 45 min its definitely a hard sell to people, but it is insanely informative and thought provoking (about so many aspects of life)
You should post that video somewhere on Reddit with a catchy title. If this ADHD post got 2 gold, that one deserves 4. Seriously, thank you for sharing. Have some Serotonin, on me!
great talk, really made a lot of the things I've been feeling make sense. The things he went over is also one of the reasons why I choose not to have a phone. The downside is that out of my group of friends, I'm the only one who seems to be aware of my surroundings and they can't focus on anything. I feel super disconnected from them.
They're in a constant state of "I really wanna start doing this one thing" but they never actually do it. Just go right back to their phones.
I'll watch it later. No, really, I will watch it tomorrow. It's 12:40AM here and I really need to go to sleep. Before that, let me just read the thread a little more.
i sympathize with you, and I thought the same thing. But if you stick with it you will definitely be glad for it. I suffer from everything about this thread and I got through it, he turns out to be a great speaker. Seriously, stick with it. You'll be surprised...
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u/aletoledo May 30 '17
It's almost like people like this are attracted to reddit for some reason...