Recent comments in /f/GetMotivated

windywiIIow t1_j9g3ycx wrote

I saw something a few years ago that stuck with me. It was basically a kid saying to their parents that at 25 they are too old to start a medical degree as they will be 32 when they finish.

The parents respond with either way you'll be 32, might as well be 32 and a doctor.

Feel like this is a similar/parallel point.

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shor_yuken t1_j9frxp2 wrote

Reveling and wallowing in a veneer of low self-esteem is just victim mentality with extra steps.

Being motivated by lies, getting more and more comfortable lying to yourself about things as important as your core identity, is not a good principle to have.

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Mendel247 t1_j9fm3yg wrote

I have ADHD, too. I was diagnosed last year after years and years of struggling. I've actually been teaching English as a foreign language for the best part of a decade (without a degree, go figure!) and I've found I'm really good at it, but what I'm better at is working with gifted or struggling students and helping them/their parents identify what's causing their issues (and gifted students are very likely to have issues, too!) and get help. Following my own abysmal experience with getting ADHD treatment, and the appalling way so many of y students have been treated, I've decided I want to become a neuropsychologist. I finally got adequate treatment at the end of last summer and since then I've finished a series of coursera courses - more to see if I can actually commit to studying and to get back into studying than for the courses themselves, and I've been really consistent and I've done well on the courses. I wish I'd been treated sooner, but I wasn't, so I just have to make the best of now...

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