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Ask yourself what is actually required to succeed in academia

• FFP999 3y ago
  The ability to kowtow to corporate foundations to get funding?
• bumby 3y ago
  Depends on level, no? Certainly it seems higher up (PhD or other research-oriented role), rote busy work may be necessary from time to time, but it also requires more creative work trying to synthesize new ideas.
  • Jensson 3y ago
    ADHD has too much creativity and barely any capacity for bulk, so trading a bit of that creativity to do the bulk work is worth it. Imagine if your brain refuses to do worthless uncreative work, that is ADHD, it is great for coming up with ideas but sucks for doing the work you often have to do.
    • bumby 3y ago
      I agree with you there. But the thrust of the article was using drugs as “cognitive enhancers” not to treat a medical condition of ADHD. Bringing someone up to baseline is one thing, but this is not that.