Imagine this. You have never heard of ADD or ADHD.
And then somebody comes up and says: “I have a nice pill for you. You’re going to sit still and you will be silent when you take this pill.”
It’s a stimulant, but it’s exactly what you need.
How would you respond?

Some things are so out of line that it’s getting ridiculous. It’s not that ADD or ADHD can’t be things that do or do not exist — the point is that you have to learn to live a life where you can comfortably be healthy without taking any medication.

First: what the hell is wrong with kids who can’t focus and have a lot of energy and creativity?

It took me 37 years to “master” ADHD. To find my own rhythm, with a lot of ups and a lot of downs. I used to take meds. Now I work out and eat clean.

We as a society are so quick to judge people who move differently than others.

Do you know how unlikely it would be not to have a lot of ADHD? We sit all day.
• A lot of work is about sitting still, focusing, and listening
• We have a lot of bad eating habits
• Social media, digital life
• A lot of people don’t work out

The result? Everybody has ADHD.

The mistake people often make is thinking that ADHD “runs in the family,” that it’s purely genetic. That’s partly true — but do you know what also runs in families? Bad eating habits. You get the point.

I get it — it’s nuanced. ADHD is not real in the way a bruise is real, something I can see directly right now. But it is real as a descriptive set of traits in somebody’s personality.
The problem is that for a kid, these nuances don’t exist. For a kid, having ADHD is real: “Your brain just works a little bit differently.”

ADD people work on what they find interesting. And what you find interesting changes all the time. So it actually makes perfect sense.

I know I’m going to oversimplify this analogy, but if you see the brain as a neural network, people with ADD change the weight of the parameters all the time.

How this looks in practice:
You start with the laundry, five minutes later you’re calling someone, and five minutes after that you’ve started a new hobby.

This actually makes a lot of sense because that is exactly how you learn what you find interesting and important.

People with ADD find a lot of things a little bit important. So they start a lot of tasks.
On the contrary, people with autism often find one thing very important.

So an ADD brain distributes its weight across many things, while someone with autism puts almost all their weight into one thing.

There is nothing wrong with either of these. It completely depends on what you find interesting.

When you have ADD, it can feel like you never make any progress because you never finish anything.
But this isn’t true: you are always making progress.

What is possible with consciousness
I have experimented a lot with consciousness, and I’ve found some spectacular things.
Note: this is not for the faint-hearted.

  • You can see your own thoughts.

  • You can make the inside of your body visible.

  • You can move completely independently from your brain—distance yourself.

  • You can follow patterns through your body.

  • You can alternate between different dimensions and parallel universes.

Learning
What distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans intuitively understand that you want to have as many different people and opinions as possible.
We could also choose a strategy in which the strong overpower the weak, but that doesn’t happen.
So we want a lot of diversity. We operate as a large group.

Whether that is good or bad is something you can question. We are not very good at recognizing the importance of other species. In that area, too, we need diversity.

But on a human level — for example in the field of neurodiversity — we learn a lot from one another.

I make my own DNA survive or not survive. The whole point is that this is a choice.
I get it: there are “random” mutations in DNA. We don’t evolve because we need to evolve in a certain direction. It’s more like: something happens, and it survives or it doesn’t.

Creation means that you still believe there is a version of you that learns to take care of itself, learns to fight, to cook, to communicate — and a version of you that doesn’t. So whether my specific “random” DNA survives is a process that you can heavily influence.

I have been both versions of myself. And I can say it makes a big difference.
Even intelligence, for instance, is 99% hard work and 1% genetics. When I didn’t take proper care of myself, I became stupid.

First, the terminology. When we talk about randomness in evolution, it has nothing to do with rolling a dice. It simply means that nature is not influenced by what an organism needs. That part is correct, because nature has a very elegant way of showing that it doesn’t interfere with our sexuality and mating. But that doesn’t mean it’s random.

Why? Because going forward in time, nature is not limited by constraints backward in time.

That people are born with different traits has nothing to do with DNA. DNA is more like a recipe backwards in time. DNA is the recipe that shows nothing interfered with ‘making’ you.

I think the fundamental mistake people make is this:
A human is made from one basic material. Let’s call it energy. That energy appears in different states. Your lungs, heart, and thoughts are all made of the same material. Everything is made of the same material.