English transcript

Why this child can play video games for hours and cannot do homework for more

than a few minutes. Because the video game provides external, continuous, 100%

consequences for interacting with it, and the homework does nothing.

When a problem is solved on a sheet of paper, nothing happens.

The consequences are delayed. And therein lies the trouble.

So the corollary of this is if you want to see an ADHD person fail, you put

him in any environment where there are no consequences.

And I guarantee you failure. The work will not get done.

Because the person cannot self-motivate.

And this is not a choice, and this is not willful, and this is not a child

who just could if they wished wake up tomorrow and smell the coffee and get

busy and do the work. They cannot. This is an internal, neurogenetic, executive

failure. You can't self-motivate like other people.

So it doesn't matter what your goals are, you won't get there.