Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanodia

But okay.

How can I upskill things like learning a language when ADHD limits my ability to not self-motivate due to no deadlines, etc.?

Okay, this is great.

So people with ADHD, how do you upskill when there's no deadline?

So I want to learn a language.

I want to learn an instrument.

I want to start exercising.

I should clean out my closet.

There's a lot of stuff that I really do want to do.

I want to do it.

But there's nothing externally motivating me.

And that's where the key thing is to decouple your action from external motivation.

And there's a great paper I'm going to pull up.

First, extrinsic reinforcers have elicited amygdala, ACC, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, orbitofrontal core, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, okay?

activity in healthy subjects that was associated with higher self-reported extrinsic motivation, but lower self-reported intrinsic motivation.

So first thing to understand, there are all these regions of the brain.

When we have activity in these regions in the brain, we have higher extrinsic motivation, i.e.

responding to deadlines, inner lower self-reported motivation.

Okay?

Now here's the cool thing.