🧵4/4 Okay, relating to real life: I don't know if another person made a mistake. I don't have all of the context and I'm not smarter or better than everyone else in everything. What we can know is the current situation and we can figure out how to proceed.

Don't let your ego be an obstacle.

🧵3/4 If I assign a value to the opponent's move and say it's bad, it is incredibly likely I make an even bigger mistake in response, trying to take advantage of it - especially if the original move indeed wasn't a mistake.

🧵2/4 Today however, there's one specific lesson on my mind: I don't know what the best move is. I don't know if the opponent's move is good or bad. I just have to accept what's on the board and continue from there.

5/5 Suddenly the noise in my head is gone. Suddenly I can talk to people openly. I can target my attention to things other than my special interests. I *want* to do things. These are all things professionals have been trying to treat from the lens of depression, but apparently it was ADHD all along.

4/5 After trying *everything* within the six years I've been working, I finally decided it's time to listen to my psychiatrist's idea and go through the ADHD diagnosis. The process went smoothly and I got the medication. It took effect within an hour and turned my whole world upside down.

3/5 Shit hit the fan in work life. Given an interesting problem and a good day, I'm very efficient. Given a bad day, I can't get anything done. Given a boring or simple task, I can't get anything done. I've been struggling with feeling like I'm just inferior to everyone else at work.

2/5 I could remember what I heard in class, so I did well. Unfortunately, this ability started to get less and less relevant as I grew older. I started to flunk classes in high school if I wasn't lucky enough to get a teacher who explained the subject well. Still, I managed to graduate.

I like to believe the information looks at me the same way McConaughey did in Interstellar when I'm using the Confluence search