## Highlights Quickly check off which of these problems you’ve experienced to get an idea of all the ways ADHD affects you. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j7ha803tzd8rg7a53gszz4ay)) - 💭 useful for revisiting symptoms The problems that ADHD creates are not so much with knowledge, or the back part of our brain, but with performance, or the front part of our brain. That is where we use that knowledge in daily life for greater effectiveness. Thus, the problems for you have more to do with not using what you know at critical points of performance in your life than with not knowing what to do. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j7hap0rw252c6fmbkcra8g4g)) - 💭 i wonder if a second brain ai retrieval can help with this Adults with ADHD do not seem to monitor their performance of tasks as well as others, or to use mistakes they make to give them important information that could guide their actions in the immediate future. It’s as if they start on a straight line and stay on it relentlessly no matter the mistakes that may be piling up behind them. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j7hb127hz0gjf134kcqcc1rm)) Lacking self-control robs you of free will. This is one of the most tragic consequences of ADHD. You might think you’re doing what you desire. Yet if you can’t inhibit your behavior, you miss out on the delay between an event and your response. That delay is essential: It gives you the chance to think. Even more critically, that delay empowers you to _choose freely_ among all of your available options, both now and in the future. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j7hb6a7kq5f6xjmbjz80q946)) _Self-control_ is defined in psychology as any response, or chain of responses, that we direct at ourselves that leads us to change our own behavior instead of just acting on impulse so that we can change what will happen in the future. It is action directed at the self to change that likely future. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j7hb74emp1p591gexsnd2me9)) - 💭 this is why periodic reviews are grounding. routines that get you to think about the higher order