Dan Martell - March 13, 2024


Talking labels and ADHD with @CodieSanchezCT


Episode Stats


Length

48 seconds

Words per minute

231.72243

Word count

187

Sentence count

9


Summary

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In this episode, we talk about ADHD and focus. Do we really have an ADHD epidemic, or is it just our focus? Do we need labels to describe a person to each other, or should we keep it for ourselves?

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 You talk about focus versus ADHD a little bit.
00:00:03.000 Do we really have this ADHD epidemic?
00:00:05.680 Or is a lot of this just our focus?
00:00:07.900 I have a problem with labels of anybody for anything.
00:00:10.520 I think we're all beautiful expressions of our unique, experienced souls, all that stuff.
00:00:14.720 If doctors need it to describe a person to each other, then keep it for yourselves.
00:00:19.940 A lot of people that have ADHD, I was diagnosed when I was 11,
00:00:22.460 put on Ritalin, told I was special and broken, all this.
00:00:26.340 Turns out they just didn't know where to point me.
00:00:28.880 If this was 300 years ago, we'd call me an evolutionary hunter.
00:00:32.840 You'd want one of me in your tribe because I'm the guy that's going to go out in the woods
00:00:36.660 and I'm going to bring back the food and then you guys can all eat.
00:00:39.100 We went to this like agricultural farming society where now we all have to sit in these chairs
00:00:43.720 and learn and study and show up and everybody do the same thing in the right order or you're an issue.