EPISODE · Feb 3, 2023 · 18 MIN
Your future self is not impressed 😖 ADHD Impulsivity + Temporal Discounting
from It's The ADHD-Friendly Show | Personal Growth, Well-being and Productivity for Distractible Minds · host Caren Magill
Send us a textTemporal discounting means that we discount things that will only happen in the future. Like, retirement or getting old and frail. So we make decisions that are better for us in the short term, and long term be damned! Now, not now is a term coined by Dr. Russel Barkley. Unlike temporal discounting, we ADHDers not only discount the future, we literally forget it's there because... it's not now. That's what we're untangling today and how to manage it.»»»»»...
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Send us a textTemporal discounting means that we discount things that will only happen in the future. Like, retirement or getting old and frail. So we make decisions that are better for us in the short term, and long term be damned! Now, not now is a term coined by Dr. Russel Barkley. Unlike temporal discounting, we ADHDers not only discount the future, we literally forget it's there because... it's not now. That's what we're untangling today and how to manage it.»»»»»...
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Your future self is not impressed 😖 ADHD Impulsivity + Temporal Discounting
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