Shannon's Journal Discussion Thread, Vol. 8

[Shannon]

@Shannon

One of the main motivations of ADHD is interest. What if you made a program that caused the listener to mentally analyze their life and organize the things that need to be done to improve it, and prioritize them by order of importance of what will have the biggest impact that has a workable time and effort required, and then get the listener to intensely desire whatever’s at the top of the list, such that nothing will stop them from achieving it? Reminds me of the classic  book “Think and Grow Rich”. If you single-mindedly and intensely desire something, you will will it into being. And if you desire what’s best for you? Well then that sounds like a recipe for success.

Not sure if it would be better to desire the outcome, the process or some combination of the two. Likely both.

I would absolutely instantly buy something like this.

Or perhaps the subliminal could somehow give us more conscious control over our desires. If I could get myself to want to do what I want to do, I would probably have no productivity issues.

Edit:
Maybe the program could even go a step further and include all types of desires holistically. Like curiosity, passion, interest, hope,  enjoyment (don’t know if this counts as desire lol), etc. Just the process of achieving the goal is just enjoyable and desirable and it’s like you are effortlessly pulled towards it and the whole process is enjoyable and effortless, almost like things coming together on their own. The mental image of two things flowing together and blooming like a flower comes to mind.

The ADD/ADHD aid has been in development for quite some time.  It's just that the program is going to be very complex and will take a while to do, and I might as well wait for 6G at this point.

So far my research points to ADD and ADHD being caused by at least two different things, and I've got a group of testers who is helping me test and put together the components for such a program. 

I'll make note of this and see if there's anything from your suggestion here that I can make use of when the time comes to build that program.