Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

They'll say, I can get a lot done in an hour.

If I ask my patients with ADHD, how much can you get done in an hour?

They'll say, I can't get much done in an hour.

So I want you all to think about that for a second, okay?

So if my brain estimates

that very little can be accomplished in one hour.

I know I'm asking you all to be pretty abstract here.

So if my brain estimates that the value of an hour is incredibly low, okay?

Like, I can't get much done.

So now I want you all to think about this.

If the value of an hour is low, what is the cost...

of wasting an hour, right?

If I can get very little done in an hour, if my estimation of the value of an hour is actually artificially low, it makes it way easier to waste time because my brain is actually telling me like, oh, you can play one more game.

It's like, like, and just think about this with ADHD, right?

I'm making this so abstract.

Just like, think about it.

You're, you're sitting there like literally, and you're like ready to do your homework.

And you're like, oh my God, this is going to take me five hours to do like two questions.

So if it takes you five hours to do two questions, you know, playing one game for an hour is only worth like it's not even worth half a question.

So the relative value of time when we estimate it so lowly makes it way easier for us to engage in dopaminergic activity, because if my time isn't worth.