What motivates you?

We need to stop assuming everyone has the same #motivation circuits.

Neurotypical (neuroaverage, maybe?) brains are motivated by three categories of incentives:

1. Perceived importance (“I need to get this done to be successful”)
2. Someone else might think it’s important (“My boss wants this done.”)
3. Rewards and/or punishment. (“I might get a raise if I do well.”)

Think about how much of your life is incentivized assuming that you’ll be motivated by the above reasons.?

• You work on something because it’s important to your team or company.?
• You need to obey the speed limit for fear of a ticket.?
• You wash the dishes because your spouse wants things clean.

For some of us, it’s not like these things don’t matter, but they aren’t going to get us to regularly take action.?

And we can’t fight this. It happens at the physiological level. You cannot use willpower to make your brain function differently. It's why you can sit there for hours and be telling yourself every five seconds, "you need to do this" and get nothing done.

Here’s what motivates you if you are strongly #dopamine -driven:

• Urgency (“oh crap, this is due tomorrow”)
• Challenge (“I have no idea how to do this. Neat!”)
• Interest (“I love going down Wikipedia rabbit holes.”)

Folks with #adhd thrive in the kind of ambiguous, high stakes, complex situations that bring many others to tears.?And if you have one (or all) of these criteria working for you, you can conquer worlds.

If you are wired differently, give yourself permission to stop doing boring shit. Your brain is meant for bigger and better things. You need complexity, not the mundane.

And if you want to learn exactly how to work with your motivation this is your last call to join Behavior Change Bootcamp! You get specific tools to hack your motivation when all it seems to want to do is watch YouTube videos. And you'll learn why these tools work (cognitive psychology!), which means you can adapt them to your unique brain.

To quote our Slack channel, "it's bloody amazing."