Posted by vaishnav92 1 day ago
small disclaimer: You probably can't choose to only gain focus / concentration if you embark on this path. Other stuff is going to come along with it, since technically speaking, you'll be unveiling the nature of consciousness in the process.
Sort of a sieve of things that weren't worth doing anyways.
For example: brushing your teeth. Showering. Getting prescriptions. Scheduling and following through with doctor's appointments. Paying bills (thank the gods for autopay). House repairs. Calling someone to do house repairs. Going to meetings at work. Remembering to leave for work on time. Remembering your wallet.
And so forth.
Not sure the point of my comment. Maybe just to shed light on now it can be different. I would also never in a million years admit my adhd in a professional setting. It’s really stigmatized
couldn't the same be said about adhd? or looking at it from the other side by the author's terms wouldn't a sub-100-iq machine learning enthusiast be also entitled to special treatment so s/he can work with it? isn't it fair to say that adhd relates to non-adhd like sub-100-iq to plus-100-iq? again, just taking the author at face value.
I wrote a book about my coping strategies— which invert most of the common productivity-fetish advice. For instance, I value procrastination. It has important benefits.
A key move for me was to stop thinking of my mind as if it were a power boat and start thinking of it as a sailboat. Hence my book on professional self-education: Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar.
Another key move was to recognize that discipline is not my road to getting things done. Rather, my motivator is helping people.
I am also usually very careful about what I promise. Most of my promises are to do things that I have already completed, or as near as.
Of cause everybody prefers the new and shiny but not executing on what's important is simply lazyness and lack of will.
The cherry on top is the comparison of the impossibly of teaching advanced machine learning to someone of average IQ -- clearly indicating that they assume to be of higher IQ since they have grasped that topic.
OP seems to be a low performer thinking of himself as high performer held back by circumstances and not themselves
I highly recommend taking at least a little time to read up on our current (highly limited) understanding of brain science.
I do agree the use of “average” IQ as a disqualifier for understanding ML is pretty rotten though.
Then explain why do mice that were modified to have similar deficits in neurotransmitters exhibit the exact same "lazyness and lack of will".
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-024-02893-0
In normal people, dopamine and norepinephrine are released in certain parts of the brain while performing routine and administrative tasks and also anticipation. In people with ADHD, it doesn't happen properly. If a (cruel and unethical) experiment was performed on you where your dopamine signaling was lowered, you'd understand this in a jiffy.
We've all encountered (in person or online) self-diagnosers, and even worse, those who make ADHD their entire personality, and calls for the world to change itself to make life easier for others. If that's your most frequent engagement with ADHD, I get how you could have OP's type of response.