audiometry

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Comment · 1 year ago
Yeah this was exactly my conclusion too. And it enabled me to give up things that I wasn’t good at, couldn’t consistently practice, and felt as tremendous burdens. (Namely music and foreign languages). They just don’t stimulate me enough to be able to consistently practice as much as is required for mastery. Unlike jumping a bike which I can do for hours on end. Wish I could play music better and speak Japanese, but I can’t and I finally realized I never would for fundamental chemistry reasons

All these suggestions about different or better planning programs or habit forming things etc…. They have an efficacy that last six weeks, then wears off, and they themselves become another shameful burden.

And yes methylphenidate helps.

Comment · 2 years ago
Yuck. These “helpful systems” (of all flavors) inevitably, whether it’s a day or six weeks, become just another nagging burden to become averse to.

And using examples like “cleaning the kitchen” is insulting. Not everyone with ADHD is a low-functioning sub-normal…

I doubt the author of this has ADHD.

Comment · 2 years ago
Would cialis likely have the same benefits?
Comment · 3 years ago
This long form writing style where the author has to inject his own story as a secondary/support narrative gets really tedious. You could edit all of it out and the story would be sustained.
Comment · 3 years ago
This story appears almost annually in the NYTimes I feel. Or at least it appears on HN annually, cited from some large media. I wonder why by this point I’d think everyone has heard the standard rebuttals/clarifications.
Comment · 3 years ago
Yes. And oh and it’s an online store except there are no prices. Just turns into a submission form to contact the artist. (At least for the originals.). Forget it.
Comment · 3 years ago
How will you or anyone ever be able to know this… just because you cannot perceive it, you assume it cannot exist?
Comment · 3 years ago
I wonder how they count this? I use overcast app. It automatically downloads episodes of anything I’m subscribed to. But I migh not listen to it. Or I might listen to five minutes and delete. What level of truth do these podcast stats catch?
Comment · 3 years ago
He also has appeared twice on The Nine Club, a skateboarding podcast.
Comment · 3 years ago
Why do you specify that one in particular? There are so many there. Don’t know how to separate good from the bad.
Comment · 4 years ago
>just begging for some kind of regulation.

Seems like the market has regulated them quite nicely indeed.

Comment · 4 years ago
I dislike him even without being fanned by the media. Totally organic dislike for him and his product and his privacy invasion.
Comment · 4 years ago
Go on a three week video game moratorium. Get on a regular sleep schedule that wakes you up earlier than normal. Make task todo lists. Make “intentions for the week” lists. Make the items small grains of sand sand. Tick them off as you finish some of them. It won’t be everything probably. Get yourself on a program of your choosing and it becomes a virtuous cycle.

Talk to someone too. Not commiserate, which isn’t helpful, but someone who could help or offer objective advice or just even understand you better after you say your piece.

Comment · 4 years ago
Is there a way to mute the weird static sound? I turned off the radio, but the static persists. When I turned on walkie-talkie, the static moved to the speaker of the my mic/speaker combo. Turning off walk-talkie just moved the static back to original speaker.
Comment · 4 years ago
it's still dead, fifteen hours later.

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