Nir Eyal

Belief is a conviction that is open to revision based on new evidence.

So unlike facts and faith, beliefs can change.

The problem is that too many of us

think that what we take as faith is a fact and don't understand that what we think is a fact is nothing more than a belief.

So someone's saying, that's just my luck.

I'm no good at this.

I'm not a morning person.

I'm a Sagittarius.

I'm a whatever.

I have ADHD even, which I do.

You start to create that as a label, whether or not it is true.

So I would tell myself, let me tell you about my ADHD diagnosis.

So I got an ADHD diagnosis.

And for years, I would say, I have a chronic condition.

That's not going to get better because that's what I've been told, that it's a chronic condition.

Now, I'm not a doctor.

From what I understand of ADHD, looking at the literature, there's a lot of controversy out there.

And yet we fill people with these diagnoses unchecked.

There's nobody saying, hey, maybe we should cool off on these diagnoses.

If you go try and go get an ADHD diagnosis,