“You don’t get what you don’t fight for.”

This seems to be because it takes mental space and energy to convert your experiences into memories, and if you are spending your energy instead on switching very fast, you’ll remember and learn less.

“ADHD is not a diagnosis. It’s not a diagnosis. It’s just a description of certain behaviors that sometimes occur together. That’s all it is.”

“aliveness”—it’s how you learn to experience joy and pleasure.

“So it’s not like attention necessarily goes down—it just shifts,” to other, crucial forms of thinking.

Flow requires all of your brainpower, deployed toward one mission.

Then there’s a third cost to believing you can multitask, one that you’ll only notice in the medium or longer term—which we might call the “creativity drain.”

I am strongly in favor of individuals making the changes they can in their personal lives. I am also in favor of being honest about the fact there are limits to how far that can take you.

The students knew they were bone-tired, but “the problem is—they’ve been accustomed to that since puberty, basically.”