It's not you, it's the world

You can thank the industrial revolution for a whole mess of ableist thinking around productivity.

Assembly lines want humans to be primarily serve as interchangeable labor inputs. Humans are there to perform the same repetitive tasks, in the same way, over and over again. You are literally replaceable, by design.

But to be replaceable, you need homogeneity. You need one person to be essentially the same as any other. Variation means inefficiency and inefficiency means less money in the pockets of shareholders.

So, unsurprisingly, in the industrial production model, neurodiversity in the working class was ruthlessly quelled and conformity could mean the difference between starvation and a warm meal.

BLERG.

Nowadays, most of us don’t work on assembly lines, but we sure act like we do:

• Show up, even when you’re exhausted or sick.
• You're replaceable, so don’t step too far out of line.
• If you can't do your job this one particular way, it's your fault, and you should feel bad about it.

Wonder why doing even the most basic task requires white-knuckling willpower most days? It’s because you aren’t an interchangeable cog, and your nervous system is sick of you trying to be one!

Endless meetings and rigid plans and strict calendars and assembly-line thinking will never sustainably motivate you.

In my program, Motivate Your Brain, you learn the details of how motivation really works in a dopamine-driven nervous system, and why the world's industrialist ableist norms are doing you zero favors.

Your ADHD (or otherwise similarly dopamine-driven) brain needs a whole different model of productivity, and that's exactly what you get when you join.

Get excited because sign-ups for the next cohort open on Monday, September 18! Make sure you're on my email list to get first dibs!