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Check with your therapists if you have ADHD. Seriously, so often people seeking for smart answers about their minds when it’s just some biological/medical/chem

• tartoran 6y ago
  Why, only ADHD sufferers have access to an ever growing amount of information that no other generation faced before?
  • sjg007 6y ago
    It's more about the distractability and the dopamine surge when seeking novelty. This is caused by decreased executive function common in ADHD.
  • aristofun 6y ago
    Of course not. But adhds suffer from it like no one else )
  • Korpocalypse 6y ago
    related ted talk on dopamine, the internet, and novelty seeking https://youtu.be/wSF82AwSDiU https://youtu.be/wSF82AwSDiU also related: the modern diet contains alot of calorically dense food, which means less stomach and intenstinal stretching, which means more ghrelin, which activates these novelty-seeking dopaminergic systems in the brain as for the original question: a) as far as optimizing, I think that approaching the optimal state is less important than making improvements to a consistent performance ethic. Better to do something a little better every day than to miss days trying to do it better than everybody else. b) with information, I tend to focus on information that relates to a particular goal relevant to job performance or general wellbeing and then take notes on any new information and review prior notes relevant to the newest information in order to build an intuitive mental logical structure of the problem/goal and all of its moving parts. But since so few things are scientifically provable, I try to "bet" on certain things based on how more or less likely they are and an informal cost-benefit analysis