I want to talk for a bit about how Adderall, the drug, meditation, and therapy have changed my life. I realize this is a diversion from what we normally cover, and I think it's questionable whether or not I should even be talking about these issues in this podcast, right. It's called the Nomics Update, it's about the company, but I think in a lot of other ways this is kind of inside our journey building this start up.

So, [00:00:30] there might be a chance that i never do this kind of update ever again. Please let me know if it's helpful to you. Certainly, let's start off with the first one. So, the first one, Adderall. Certainly, the plight of people with attention deficit disorder is nowhere near on the same level of the plights of people dealing with other kinds of things. So, if you have a mental illness or depression, this is not in that same kind [00:01:00] of category. This isn't in the same category as people who have dealt with being repressed or people who have experienced racism or other kinds of isms because they're members of marginalized groups, but I think it's worth speaking to.

The reason I'm bringing this up is because back in the day I saw a social media post from someone who I really respected saying that he was taking some kind of medication for [00:01:30] ADD and he was better for it. He was more present for his family, he was more present to his coworkers. He was a nicer person. He was no longer depressed because he wasn't struggling with a lot of the things that come with ADD. So I think it's worth noting. If just to normalize some of this.

So, starting this year I began taking Adderall. I got a prescription and I don't know what to say here [00:02:00] other than my entire life i never really felt like I had complete access to my brain. And I never felt like my brain really worked. I went in, I saw a doctor, there were some tests, and I got a prescription. And from day one of taking this, my life has changed. I'm able to execute on things that my family needs me to execute on. That my business needs me to execute on, that our customers need us to execute on, [00:02:30] and I've never felt that all of me was available to me until now, right. Cognitively.

So, it's really, it's really really really made a difference. And so I want to normalize this and I don't know, do my small part to destigmatize attention deficit disorder and ADD. I will say that I'm glad I didn't take any of these medications as a child. Adderall is an amphetamine and [00:03:00] it's real. I do think that this was something, a decision I needed to make as an adult and I'm glad my parents were against this when I was a child. So that's really all I have to say about that. If you are an entrepreneur or involved in finance, there's a decent chance that you have something like this. A very high percentage of entrepreneurs I found have attention deficit disorder.

[00:03:30] I think it used to be called ADHD. It either used to be called ADHD and now it's called ADD, or it's ADD and now it's called ADHD. But there used to be two types of ADD, one was a kind that came with hyperactivity, and then there was a kind that did not. And I have the kind that does not come with hyperactivity, I'm a huge ... Although, you know, I like podcasting and speaking from the stage, I'm a huge introvert. Although, someone I know [00:04:00] has pointed out that speaking on stage and doing a podcast for the most part is not an extroverted activity when you're on stage, it's really just you. And yes, you're interacting with the audience and reading them, but it's very different than being in a group with five people.

So, anyway, moving on to the next thing. Meditation.

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