Dr. John Kruse

There's also the middle ground. So I sort of mentioned that the caricature is sort of the silliness and the trivial of being late for your friends at the restaurant or forgetting your car keys. And the extreme is death. But in between, we know ADHD measurably derails education, disrupts social relationships, impacts your likelihood of your earning potential.

I mean, ADHD isn't just an academic cognitive problem. It isn't just who's going to jump through the hoops and get through school. It isn't just who's turning in their reports or doing their work on time in the workforce. It's also having social implications. And in all those areas, it's having measurable, detrimental, significant impacts on people's lives.

I mean, ADHD isn't just an academic cognitive problem. It isn't just who's going to jump through the hoops and get through school. It isn't just who's turning in their reports or doing their work on time in the workforce. It's also having social implications. And in all those areas, it's having measurable, detrimental, significant impacts on people's lives.

I mean, ADHD isn't just an academic cognitive problem. It isn't just who's going to jump through the hoops and get through school. It isn't just who's turning in their reports or doing their work on time in the workforce. It's also having social implications. And in all those areas, it's having measurable, detrimental, significant impacts on people's lives.

Yeah, so back up a little bit, and I maybe should have said this when we were talking about diagnosis and what is ADHD. And many people think it's a horrible title because it focuses on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. And it's very clear, as you're enumerating here, It's not a deficit of attention. If it's a deficit at all, it's a deficit of control over attention.

Yeah, so back up a little bit, and I maybe should have said this when we were talking about diagnosis and what is ADHD. And many people think it's a horrible title because it focuses on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. And it's very clear, as you're enumerating here, It's not a deficit of attention. If it's a deficit at all, it's a deficit of control over attention.

Yeah, so back up a little bit, and I maybe should have said this when we were talking about diagnosis and what is ADHD. And many people think it's a horrible title because it focuses on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. And it's very clear, as you're enumerating here, It's not a deficit of attention. If it's a deficit at all, it's a deficit of control over attention.

And with attention, there's at least three different realms where we're controlling it. I mean, one is we direct attention. So if something's important going on over there, there, so we have to be able to shift it. Two, you have to be able to sustain it. So if it's a situation that's appropriate to be sustaining it. And three is you need to shift out of it if it's inappropriate to stay in it.

And with attention, there's at least three different realms where we're controlling it. I mean, one is we direct attention. So if something's important going on over there, there, so we have to be able to shift it. Two, you have to be able to sustain it. So if it's a situation that's appropriate to be sustaining it. And three is you need to shift out of it if it's inappropriate to stay in it.

And with attention, there's at least three different realms where we're controlling it. I mean, one is we direct attention. So if something's important going on over there, there, so we have to be able to shift it. Two, you have to be able to sustain it. So if it's a situation that's appropriate to be sustaining it. And three is you need to shift out of it if it's inappropriate to stay in it.

And in all three of those realms, people with ADHD have less volitional control over their attention. So many people in the ADHD who experience it describe hyperfocus as one of their superpowers. And that is where they're getting so absorbed in their work that they are

And in all three of those realms, people with ADHD have less volitional control over their attention. So many people in the ADHD who experience it describe hyperfocus as one of their superpowers. And that is where they're getting so absorbed in their work that they are

And in all three of those realms, people with ADHD have less volitional control over their attention. So many people in the ADHD who experience it describe hyperfocus as one of their superpowers. And that is where they're getting so absorbed in their work that they are

so busy coding that actually everyone else in the office has left and it's only when the janitor is coming and emptying the garbage cans at 11 p.m. that they say, oh my God, where is everyone? I'm still here. because I was so intently working on the project. Some people strongly resist the idea that flow... And I'm going to butcher the Czech... Csikszentmihalyi.

so busy coding that actually everyone else in the office has left and it's only when the janitor is coming and emptying the garbage cans at 11 p.m. that they say, oh my God, where is everyone? I'm still here. because I was so intently working on the project. Some people strongly resist the idea that flow... And I'm going to butcher the Czech... Csikszentmihalyi.

so busy coding that actually everyone else in the office has left and it's only when the janitor is coming and emptying the garbage cans at 11 p.m. that they say, oh my God, where is everyone? I'm still here. because I was so intently working on the project. Some people strongly resist the idea that flow... And I'm going to butcher the Czech... Csikszentmihalyi.

My reading of... When I sort of delved into this, I think hyperfocus is exactly a flow state, because people are describing the same lack of awareness of time, and it's always... I mean, it's a task that's somewhat challenging and engaging and interesting. It's not just that, you know, if it were just about enjoyment or bliss, you could hyper-focus looking at a beautiful flower.

My reading of... When I sort of delved into this, I think hyperfocus is exactly a flow state, because people are describing the same lack of awareness of time, and it's always... I mean, it's a task that's somewhat challenging and engaging and interesting. It's not just that, you know, if it were just about enjoyment or bliss, you could hyper-focus looking at a beautiful flower.

My reading of... When I sort of delved into this, I think hyperfocus is exactly a flow state, because people are describing the same lack of awareness of time, and it's always... I mean, it's a task that's somewhat challenging and engaging and interesting. It's not just that, you know, if it were just about enjoyment or bliss, you could hyper-focus looking at a beautiful flower.

People don't describe that. So it needs the right amount of challenge. It can't be too easy. It can't be too hard. It has to be something important and interesting to you. It involves oblivion not just to time but also to lots of space going around you. So I think they are pretty close, if not the same, phenomena, flow and hyperfocus.