Dr. Jeff Karp
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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Online, the goal of companies who operate online is to grab your attention. Yep. And there's a trillion dollars that's spent every year to hijack your attention. So on marketing and advertising every single year. And so our, especially people with ADHD, they fall prey the most to these types of stimuli.
And so what we need to do is it's kind of like our attention, if you think of it almost like a muscle. Yeah. the more we intentionally or on purpose focus our attention, the more we are able to do that on command, on demand for other areas of our life that are most meaningful to us.
Absolutely. I love that. Well, to me, I would first start by saying that one of the key things that really happened to me that was critical along my path is that I was a C&D student early on. I was nearly failing out because nothing was working. And I was thinking about this earlier today and I was getting emotional about it because I don't like to think about that
time too much because it was really difficult for me. All the labels I was getting, lazy. They asked me at one point, what do you want to be when you grow up? And I said, I want to be a doctor. And they said, you better set your sights lower because you just don't have what it takes to do that. They said, you're never going to amount to much. And that really took a toll.
And the one thing, the one thing that kept me going during that time is the support that I had from my parents. And in particular, my mom, there were these speech competitions at the school that started, I think, in the fourth or fifth grade. And my mom wrote the speeches for me and she helped me memorize and I had never memorized anything before. And, and I was really, I had a lot of anxiety.
I had, you know, I felt lost, but she said, okay, let's start with one word. Let's move to two words. As soon as I was, I had a sentence memorized and then I had two sentences memorized and then I had three and four and I could tap into the fact that things were changeable, that I I could actually memorize something. I didn't think I could.
And then she would coach me in how to say it, how to give the speech. And what happened was incredible because I started to win competitions. I started to be the kid to beat. And I think that every kid, every person needs to have that one thing where they can tap into the fact that things are changeable.
That one thing where they can gain that incremental confidence and tap into it, feel it in a very visceral way. Because when you do that, you can apply it to all the other areas in your life. Right. And that truly is what allowed me to keep going and to then start to develop these tools, which eventually I applied from surviving to thriving.
Well, I would start by saying the following. I believe in you. I will always believe in you. No matter what labels you get, no matter who has shamed you before, no matter what terrible things have happened to you, no matter what kind of self-shame you induce on yourself, there is a way out. There are infinite possibilities. The possibility you're living right now is not the one that defines you.
You can break out of it and you just need some tools and strategies. You just need to experiment a little bit in your life just to see beyond that possibility. And I am here to help you. I will always be here for you. And I am excited for what the future holds. Beautiful.
And no matter what, I want you to know that there is at least one thing that you are good at that you can tap into and develop and it will inspire the world. That is so beautiful.
I just have so much excitement for life and for what life holds for everybody. And I think that it's like, I have experienced so many setbacks, so many challenges, so many times when I've heard it can't be done, you can't do this, you're not good enough. I've experienced so many moments where I feel disconnected from the people around me, where I don't feel innovative anymore.
I don't feel creative. I don't feel like I can get myself out of this situation where I'm in a dark place, where I just don't know what the future holds, that I'm caught behind fear, behind hesitation. And what I've learned... in the process of my life and in writing this book and in listening to your podcast and all the tools and the reframes is that we need tools. We need rituals.
We need practices. We need each other. We need diversity. We need to be seeing things from different angles and different frames of references. And this has a way of showing us new possibilities, other possibilities, so that we don't end up trapped in this linear way that our minds gravitate to towards this single possibility that we find ourselves trapped within. And it illuminates us
when we have tools and when we can actually do these reframes. And so I'm just really excited for everyone out there. I'm excited for you to, to experience lit and to, and I'm excited to hear what resonates and I'd love to hear your stories.
I have some walnut milk if you wanted to try some of that. Yeah, there was an article in GQ on my breakfast that someone did.
Yeah, yeah.
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