Nir Eyal

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,

about what I could do.

And now what happened, Daniel, instantly as I'm thinking about my limitations?

I'm not thinking about the work.

I'm not thinking about the thing that I actually need to get done.