ADHD
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Sanchez: There is zero correlation between having ADHD and becoming a millionaire
“Also, there is zero correlation. Between having ADHD and being a millionaire, like zero.”
Weitzman: Dyslexia and ADHD suit large company CEOs, not early-stage builders
“It's great to be dyslexic or ADHD as the person who is running a large company, and it's not great as the individual person who needs to build the company.”
Millar: ADHD Generally Correlates with Higher Risk Tolerance
“I think ADHD generally means that you're quite, you have quite high risk tolerance, so you're prepared to lean in to the yes, but other people might be more skeptical.”
Millar: Simon Sinek says blank listening expressions are an ADHD trait
“Simon Sinek said it was a ADHD trait that he'd been told about, and he now works deliberately hard to be more animated.”
Gil: About 60% of New Jersey childhood ADHD diagnoses lack testing
“So in the state of New Jersey, it's something like 60% of ADHD diagnoses in kids actually have never the kids have never taken any form of test. It's just somebody deciding that they have it.”
Huberman: Sunosi Is a Promising Non-Amphetamine ADHD Alternative
“It's designed, excuse me, designed for excessive daytime sleepiness called Sunosi, which it's kind of a dirtier hit of the dopamine and epinephrine and a little bit serotonin receptors that is promising for ADHD. That's a non-amphetamine ADHD drug. That's very…”
Boyle: 23% of 17-Year-Old American Boys Have ADHD Diagnoses
“The New York Times expose that came out a couple months ago basically said that 17%, or no, no, 23% of all seventeen-year-old boys have been given an ADHD diagnosis.”
Catherine Boyle: Parents and Schools Face Systemic Incentives for ADHD Diagnoses
“The incentive systems around a lot of these things are, like, if you go to the doctor, parents, one, want these ADHD, you know, Want, want, want these diagnoses. And the reason the parents want them is because it gives you extra time, it gives you extra resour…”
Lazzarin: Broadened Diagnostic Criteria Explains Rising ADHD and Autism Rates
“One of the issues is the diagnostic criteria can shift, right? As people want to Identify these cases. See very little downside in identifying them. They may broaden, right, in an effort to precisify the diagnostic criteria. They may broaden it. And I've heard…”
Wilkinson: ChatGPT helps overcome ADHD roadblocks and sustain flow
“And I have ADHD. So when I get stuck, let's say like, what's an example. I was redoing my home IT security. Right. And what will happen is I'll be in the terminal and I'll enter something and then something goes wrong. And it just keeps airing. And then I'm li…”
Wilkinson: About 30% of Entrepreneurs Have ADHD Compared to 5% Generally
“If you take the normal population, about five percent of people have ADHD, but about 30% of entrepreneurs have ADHD.”
Chapman: Over Half of Founders Have Diagnosable Mental Health Issues
“It's 30% can be diagnosed with clinical depression. 30% can be diagnosed with ADHD. It's about 29% can be diagnosed with, like, problematic anxiety to, like, where a clinician would diagnose you with it. And there's some overlap that still ends up being, like,…”
Brian Dean: Trend data shows booming market for ADHD-specific products
“Some trends that we're seeing in that space include ADHD timers, ADHD watches, ADHD chairs, ADHD coaches, ADHD apps. And this is basically a booming market that people aren't really talking about that much.”
Brian Dean: The biggest ADHD opportunity is an umbrella brand
“The opportunity isn't necessarily in these individual SKUs, these individual products. It's in, no one's creating the brand for ADHD. So anyone that creates that community, that brand around ADHD, Then you can, the world is your oyster when it comes to selling…”
Stebbings: Extreme feelings about school and ADHD characterize the best founders
“Two, you either hate school or you love it. People that are okay tend to not be great. Really interesting, the binary is where you get great, and then also, like, ADHD is another, you know, as well as I do, clear sign of, like, the best founders have it.”
Means: Kellogg's US products contain ADHD-linked dyes omitted in Canada
“Kellogg's is a stark example, but their ingredient list, they changed completely for the American kids versus just across the border in Canada. It has addictive ingredients. It has the colorings that make it really bright that are linked to ADHD and other deve…”
Diagnosing Ordinary Misbehavior Strips Children of Their Agency
“We would pathologize ordinary behaviors and treat them to see themselves as disordered. Oh, that's just, you know, you have ADHD. Oh, that's your oppositional defiance disorder. That's why you acted out. So instead of using the sort of lay terms we've always u…”
Stimulants Are Overprescribed to Children Before Making Basic Environmental Adjustments
“There may be kids who need the stimulant, but stimulants are profound, and they are given out way, way too readily without first seeing if we can make adjustments in the child's environment to help them, you know, handle their distractibility.”
ADHD and PTSD Correlate With Low Interoception
“ADHD tends to correlate with low levels of interoception, as does if people have PTSD or trauma, again, interoception is lowered.”