Nir Eyal

You can do it on the app these days.

It's incredibly easy to get one.

Did you know in the United Kingdom, more people are neurodivergent than not?

That a third of Stanford students are neurodivergent?

Stanford students.

Is that not surprising?

We've tossed around these labels.

Not that I'm anti-diagnoses.

I think that they do have a place.

I'm going to get kicked off your show soon for saying something that's going to be very unpopular.

But I'm telling you, we're going to look back in five, maybe 10, hopefully not 20 years, and we're going to realize that this was a huge mistake.

that we way over-diagnose and do not prepare people for how harmful these labels can be, that we need to be very careful because our labels can become our limits.

So for me, here's what happened.

I'll just tell you personal experience.

I would spin myself out about the label, about the diagnosis.

There's my ADHD again, and it's always going to be a chronic condition, and what if I never get better at this?

Am I always going to struggle?

Am I always going to be behind?

Is this always going to be harder for me?

And I would make up these limiting beliefs,