Ned Johnson

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601 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard May 2019 last heard Sep 2024

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And he's super sharp, but really ADHD.

And so I explained to him.

So look, you um you can't see the paper, but uh at the one side of the paper I put here's you and at the other foreign, here's the goal.

And I said, you know, people like, I don't know, maybe your mom can sit and go, ooh, that's an important goal.

It's really far off, but she'll sit there and work on it consistently from point A to point B.

And I said, you'll go, Oh, that's really important.

And you'll start walking towards that, but then you go, Ooh, first squirrel.

Oh, oh shoot, darn it, uh, ESPN.

And you zig and you zag and you back back and forth across your mom has a straight line from from here to the goal, and you're all over the place.

And it's just the way you're

brain works, that you don't have enough dopamine kicking through your head or your brain processes very inefficiently.

And he's like, You've just explained my entire life.

And I'm like, But here's the great part: it's gonna get better.

Right.

It's gonna get easier.

Oh, there's a lot of points in the right.

One of that would be taking the long view, right?

And we have we have in the in the book the the story of the the parable of the Chinese farmer, right, who's

This he's very poor man, right?

And the and the his neighbor comes by and looks at this poor man.

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