Dr. Alok Kanojia

The first of which is by the second grade, a large percentage of kids with ADHD get invited to zero birthday parties. Really? That's terrible. It's awful. So when you're a first grader, what happens? Like you don't wait for your turn in line. You cut. Oh, man, the dopamine rush of going down the slide was so fun. You can't think about anything else. You're running back in.

You push another kid out of the way and then you go. You don't wait your turn. You don't play with other kids in a nice way. You're not attuned to them in a good way. Right. So there's like a lot of social isolation that comes with ADHD.

You push another kid out of the way and then you go. You don't wait your turn. You don't play with other kids in a nice way. You're not attuned to them in a good way. Right. So there's like a lot of social isolation that comes with ADHD.

You push another kid out of the way and then you go. You don't wait your turn. You don't play with other kids in a nice way. You're not attuned to them in a good way. Right. So there's like a lot of social isolation that comes with ADHD.

That's just one example. The second thing is that kids are really good at judging IQ. Like, it's amazing. So we're really good at recognizing, like, stupid people and smart people. Okay. So this is paradoxically really damaging for an ADHD kid because an ADHD kid knows that they're not stupid. Like, I know that I'm just about as smart as all of my friends. But I cannot achieve what they achieve.

That's just one example. The second thing is that kids are really good at judging IQ. Like, it's amazing. So we're really good at recognizing, like, stupid people and smart people. Okay. So this is paradoxically really damaging for an ADHD kid because an ADHD kid knows that they're not stupid. Like, I know that I'm just about as smart as all of my friends. But I cannot achieve what they achieve.

That's just one example. The second thing is that kids are really good at judging IQ. Like, it's amazing. So we're really good at recognizing, like, stupid people and smart people. Okay. So this is paradoxically really damaging for an ADHD kid because an ADHD kid knows that they're not stupid. Like, I know that I'm just about as smart as all of my friends. But I cannot achieve what they achieve.

So there's an achievement gap. So even though I'm just as smart and I learn things just as quickly, my grades are way worse. So if you know your IQ is the same, your performance is way worse. How does a child make sense of that? The child says, OK, I'm busted in some way. There's something wrong with me. And they have evidence of this. Right. Because other kids are able to make friends.

So there's an achievement gap. So even though I'm just as smart and I learn things just as quickly, my grades are way worse. So if you know your IQ is the same, your performance is way worse. How does a child make sense of that? The child says, OK, I'm busted in some way. There's something wrong with me. And they have evidence of this. Right. Because other kids are able to make friends.

So there's an achievement gap. So even though I'm just as smart and I learn things just as quickly, my grades are way worse. So if you know your IQ is the same, your performance is way worse. How does a child make sense of that? The child says, OK, I'm busted in some way. There's something wrong with me. And they have evidence of this. Right. Because other kids are able to make friends.

But I just know that everyone went to a birthday party and I wasn't invited. Right. So they grow up with this idea that there's something wrong with me. And they're right. It's that people don't understand that this is a neurodiverse individual.

But I just know that everyone went to a birthday party and I wasn't invited. Right. So they grow up with this idea that there's something wrong with me. And they're right. It's that people don't understand that this is a neurodiverse individual.

But I just know that everyone went to a birthday party and I wasn't invited. Right. So they grow up with this idea that there's something wrong with me. And they're right. It's that people don't understand that this is a neurodiverse individual.

So that core of something is wrong with me, coupled with the lack of academic performance, coupled with the lack of social performance, when all that stuff piles on, they wind up depressed later in life.

So that core of something is wrong with me, coupled with the lack of academic performance, coupled with the lack of social performance, when all that stuff piles on, they wind up depressed later in life.

So that core of something is wrong with me, coupled with the lack of academic performance, coupled with the lack of social performance, when all that stuff piles on, they wind up depressed later in life.

Yeah. So let me ask you, Jordan, when you were 33 and you had like 40 percent body fat or whatever, what was your mental state like?

Yeah. So let me ask you, Jordan, when you were 33 and you had like 40 percent body fat or whatever, what was your mental state like?

Yeah. So let me ask you, Jordan, when you were 33 and you had like 40 percent body fat or whatever, what was your mental state like?

I think there's a couple of other like interesting connections there. One is that people with ADHD do way better in entrepreneurship.