Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

If something is important, it demands all of my attention.

And so what we sort of learn with ADHD, and you all may have experienced this, right, is once something is in your head, it's there for a long time.

When I get really excited, or it's there until it isn't.

So the ability to put things into your head or take things out of your head, that is the fundamental deficit in ADHD.

We cannot switch.

It's a problem.

Remember, it's an attention deficit disorder, which means there are problems with attention.

That goes both ways.

It's not just that you can't focus.

It's also that you can get into hyper focus.

So our brain says this is important.

Let's not forget important things deserve to be thought about.

Therefore, we're going to think about them.

And so what this looks like is a huge amount of unproductivity, right?

So people will say, like, what is a symptom of ADHD?

Everyone's like, we procrastinate.

Although, why do we procrastinate?

We look at this and we say we're procrastinating, we're wasting time.

It's that your mind is occupied.

Your mind has to be occupied.