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I assume you mean the sharing of the article, because the author was a philosophy prof.

Do you have anything I can follow up on for,

> most people prioritize "extrinsically" meaning, whether or not something is "interesting" is not primary information in their prioritizations.

I would have thought the quest for dopamine was pretty universal and there's a good friend in my life who has a serious case of ADHD.



Yes, this article is very helpful. The website is very noisy, maybe to keep hyperactive ADHD people around, but it's horrible for me. Try a reader mode:

https://www.additudemag.com/secrets-of-the-adhd-brain/?srslt...


By the way, the difference is not motivation by interest, but dependence on interest to initiate a task or even think about something.




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