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🚨ADHD Isn't a Bug: It's a Suppressed Superpower On Whitney Cummings's appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, she made a point that deserves more attention than the headlines it'll get. What we call ADHD may not be a deficit at all. It may be a concentration system that only...

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As someone diagnosed with ADHD when I was younger, I really appreciate this exchange between Lionel Richie and Joe Rogan. It’s exactly what I wish I’d heard growing up. RICHIE: “I tell all the parents, leave them alone!” ADHD medication made me a better student, but it also jacked up my heart rate and blood pressure and made me boring. Don’t rush to medicate kids. Find out what excites them and watch them thrive. ROGAN: “Everybody wants to diagnose everybody and medicate them. I had for sure ADHD when I was a kid. I think everybody that I know that’s talented and creative has ADHD, whatever that means.”
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As someone diagnosed with ADHD when I was younger, I really appreciate this exchange between Lionel Richie and Joe Rogan. It’s exactly what I wish I’d heard growing up. RICHIE: “I tell all the parents, leave them alone!” ADHD medication made me a better student, but it also jacked up my heart rate and blood pressure and made me boring. Don’t rush to medicate kids. Find out what excites them and watch them thrive. ROGAN: “Everybody wants to diagnose everybody and medicate them. I had for sure ADHD when I was a kid. I think everybody that I know that’s talented and creative has ADHD, whatever that means.”

The Vigilant Fox 🦊

1,259,281 views • 9 months ago

ADHD may be more than an attention disorder; new data suggests it's linked to mismatched circadian rhythms. A study found 78% of individuals with ADHD had delayed melatonin and cortisol release. #ADHD #CircadianRhythm
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ADHD may be more than an attention disorder; new data suggests it's linked to mismatched circadian rhythms. A study found 78% of individuals with ADHD had delayed melatonin and cortisol release. #ADHD #CircadianRhythm

Matt Walker

569,708 views • 6 months ago

1. ADHD isn’t a lack of attention—it’s a mismanagement of it. ADHD brains can hyperfocus for hours on what they love… But completely tune out everything else. It’s not about “focus problems,” it’s about focus control.
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1. ADHD isn’t a lack of attention—it’s a mismanagement of it. ADHD brains can hyperfocus for hours on what they love… But completely tune out everything else. It’s not about “focus problems,” it’s about focus control.

Divine Manhood | Self Improvement

275,192 views • 11 months ago

As someone diagnosed with ADHD, I really appreciate this rant from Joe Rogan. It’s exactly what every parent needs to hear BEFORE they decide to medicate their child. “Whatever that f*cking [ADHD] is, it’s a superpower. It’s a superpower if you use it right. Just the idea that you have to medicate a kid because you can’t sit in school. Find out if that kid’s good at other stuff. Find out if there’s a thing that. Okay, maybe they can’t sit there where someone’s teaching them math. Maybe they get bored real quick... I bet they focus like a motherf*cker when they’re playing video games, right? So what’s that all about? Find the thing that that kid can lock into. “The thing is, you make people do things that are completely unnatural. You make people sit down when they’re six in a chair, while some lady who’s making $35,000 a year doesn’t like kids, is teaching them some sh*t that she doesn’t care about. “So there’s no energy in the room… So they’re talking. ‘This is bullsh*t. This class sucks’… and then they get in trouble for talking like, ughhh… ‘Your child’s a problem.’ Is the child really the problem? “Seems like the child has a lot of energy. That’s not a problem. You’re not providing an inspiring environment for a growing mind.” MY TAKE: Don’t rush to medicate kids. Find out what excites them and watch them thrive.
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As someone diagnosed with ADHD, I really appreciate this rant from Joe Rogan. It’s exactly what every parent needs to hear BEFORE they decide to medicate their child. “Whatever that f*cking [ADHD] is, it’s a superpower. It’s a superpower if you use it right. Just the idea that you have to medicate a kid because you can’t sit in school. Find out if that kid’s good at other stuff. Find out if there’s a thing that. Okay, maybe they can’t sit there where someone’s teaching them math. Maybe they get bored real quick... I bet they focus like a motherf*cker when they’re playing video games, right? So what’s that all about? Find the thing that that kid can lock into. “The thing is, you make people do things that are completely unnatural. You make people sit down when they’re six in a chair, while some lady who’s making $35,000 a year doesn’t like kids, is teaching them some sh*t that she doesn’t care about. “So there’s no energy in the room… So they’re talking. ‘This is bullsh*t. This class sucks’… and then they get in trouble for talking like, ughhh… ‘Your child’s a problem.’ Is the child really the problem? “Seems like the child has a lot of energy. That’s not a problem. You’re not providing an inspiring environment for a growing mind.” MY TAKE: Don’t rush to medicate kids. Find out what excites them and watch them thrive.

The Vigilant Fox 🦊

549,408 views • 8 months ago

Dr. Russell Barkley, leading ADHD expert, explains the heartbreaking reality many parents face: A child with ADHD can play video games for hours without issue... but struggle to do homework for even a few minutes. Why? Video games deliver constant, immediate, 100% external consequences and feedback—every action gets instant reward or response. Homework? Nothing happens when a problem is solved. Consequences are delayed (or invisible), so the brain's motivation system flatlines. This isn't laziness, willpower failure, or "they could if they wanted." It's a neurogenetic executive function deficit: ADHD impairs self-motivation. Without external structure, immediate cues, and consequences, the work simply won't get done—no matter the goals or good intentions. Put an ADHD brain in a low-consequence environment, and failure follows. It's not a choice; it's how the wiring works. The takeaway? Stop blaming the person. Build environments with external motivators: timers, immediate rewards, gamified tasks, accountability. Parents/teachers: What's one external structure (timer, reward chart, body doubling) that's helped an ADHD kid bridge that motivation gap?
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Dr. Russell Barkley, leading ADHD expert, explains the heartbreaking reality many parents face: A child with ADHD can play video games for hours without issue... but struggle to do homework for even a few minutes. Why? Video games deliver constant, immediate, 100% external consequences and feedback—every action gets instant reward or response. Homework? Nothing happens when a problem is solved. Consequences are delayed (or invisible), so the brain's motivation system flatlines. This isn't laziness, willpower failure, or "they could if they wanted." It's a neurogenetic executive function deficit: ADHD impairs self-motivation. Without external structure, immediate cues, and consequences, the work simply won't get done—no matter the goals or good intentions. Put an ADHD brain in a low-consequence environment, and failure follows. It's not a choice; it's how the wiring works. The takeaway? Stop blaming the person. Build environments with external motivators: timers, immediate rewards, gamified tasks, accountability. Parents/teachers: What's one external structure (timer, reward chart, body doubling) that's helped an ADHD kid bridge that motivation gap?

Camus

574,506 views • 5 months ago

ADHD is an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. It makes it hard to focus and control impulses. It's best explained with a short video:
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ADHD is an attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. It makes it hard to focus and control impulses. It's best explained with a short video:

Stijn Noorman

493,357 views • 1 year ago

ADHD isn't a disorder. It's simply tuning out when you don't care about something. Gabor Maté says that your childhood may play a role:
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ADHD isn't a disorder. It's simply tuning out when you don't care about something. Gabor Maté says that your childhood may play a role:

Stijn Noorman

412,105 views • 1 year ago

I started Neurode to manage my ADHD without side effects and keep the best parts of ADHD (creativity, hyperfocus etc). We built Neurode, a headband that treats and tracks ADHD in 20 minutes a day, drug-free. 100 people can try it in our private Beta.
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I started Neurode to manage my ADHD without side effects and keep the best parts of ADHD (creativity, hyperfocus etc). We built Neurode, a headband that treats and tracks ADHD in 20 minutes a day, drug-free. 100 people can try it in our private Beta.

Nathalie Gouailhardou

27,738 views • 2 years ago

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Dr. Russell Barkley reframes ADHD in a powerful way: It's not just "attention deficit" — it's a failure of persistence toward goals. He explains: ADHD disrupts specific executive functions in the frontal lobe — not perception or filtering, but sustaining action toward delayed outcomes, resisting distractions (via inhibition failure), and re-engaging after interruptions (due to working memory deficits). Key insights from the clip: - Inattentiveness in ADHD = poor goal-directed persistence (behavior, motivation, future-oriented). - Distractions aren't perceived more — people with ADHD respond to them more because they can't inhibit reactions. - Working memory loss means the goal "disappears" → easy to skip from unfinished task to unfinished task. - ADHD may be better called Executive Function Deficit Disorder (EFDD), with persistence as the core attention issue. This shifts the view from "can't pay attention" to "can't direct behavior forward in time" — a profound difference for understanding, diagnosis, and support. Ever felt this "future blindness" in daily life? How does it show up for you or someone you know? Share respectfully — open to hearing experiences!

Camus

92,092 views • 4 months ago

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Camus

230,612 views • 2 months ago

So ADHD isn't attention deficit disorder. It's selective hyper-focus. You can focus extremely well on things you care about. But you can't focus on things you don't care about.
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So ADHD isn't attention deficit disorder. It's selective hyper-focus. You can focus extremely well on things you care about. But you can't focus on things you don't care about.

Stijn Noorman

337,940 views • 1 year ago

The timing of your sleep is equally important to the duration of sleep. Figuring out your best sleep-wake timing is critical to maximizing your attention & focus, especially if you have ADHD. There’s evidence much of ADHD may be due to a circadian rhythm disruption.
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The timing of your sleep is equally important to the duration of sleep. Figuring out your best sleep-wake timing is critical to maximizing your attention & focus, especially if you have ADHD. There’s evidence much of ADHD may be due to a circadian rhythm disruption.

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Mario Nawfal

55,894 views • 11 months ago

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73,508 views • 2 months ago

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"It's a once in a lifetime movie and it deserves the attention... it'll come out when it comes out" OpTic HecZ and Roger on The Process

Jake Lucky

85,970 views • 8 months ago

ADHD is related to a lack of dopamine. Which makes it hard to focus on things you don't care about. This is why people with ADHD sometimes self-medicate.
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ADHD is related to a lack of dopamine. Which makes it hard to focus on things you don't care about. This is why people with ADHD sometimes self-medicate.

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258,821 views • 1 year ago

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🇺🇸 Chamath just revealed the truth on Rogan… attention is what runs it all. Google ranks the web by attention. Facebook and Instagram are built to capture attention. The most important AI paper ever written is literally called "Attention Is All You Need." Every system that now runs the world reduces to the same single currency. And at some point, that stops sounding like branding and starts sounding like a warning. Joe Rogan, Chamath Palihapitiya

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314,714 views • 2 months ago

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Chris Packham on ADHD, Dyslexia and Autism #GMB "Some of the traits that I have as an autistic person, and people have with ADHD, is a spectrum condition, you may have some of those" "But they may not be impacting on your life as they do ours"

Farrukh

33,718 views • 1 year ago

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ELON: SELF-DRIVING CARS WILL OFFER A COMPLETELY NEW EXPERIENCE “If you're not driving, you're really effectively sitting in a tiny lounge. If you’re being entertained and able to watch movies or play video games or work, the car just becomes like a tiny mobile lounge. Or you could sleep, whatever you want to do – you could drink too as you're not driving. It's like a little mobile lounge. It's not something where you have to focus your attention on driving all the time. It's a completely different experience.” Source: X Takeover, July 2024

Mario Nawfal

38,408 views • 11 months ago