"The fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. This is called " Ego Involvement" - when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. It's not because you don't care, or are lazy, but because you care too much.
To overhaul this thought process and it's resultant consequences on your life, it's important to recognize that this is what's happening, and to detach your self worth from everyday tasks/work that needs to be done.
This is part of the reason that doing for others when you can't do for yourself works.
It also sort of explains why body doubling works for some. It adds an outside pressure we care more about, and demotes the self worth aspect we place on whatever task needs to be done.
This does not mean that you'll be able to use the coping mechanisms of others to achieve your goal though, sometimes getting proper medical care and mental health care is what allows you to develope coping mechanisms that work for you.
Annoyance at others motivates me. If I put a dish in the sink? That's fine. The only person I can be mad at is me and my self worth is attached to it, but that's a problem for later me. If my husband puts a plate in the sink? I'm annoyed, both at him and at the fact that there's clutter and I'm more motivated to deal with it before it becomes a stack of plates etc.
This is a coping mechanism I have that doesn't necessarily work for other people. Maybe they don't live with someone else. Maybe they have a different dynamic and relationship with the people they do live with. But it works for us.
Another of my coping mechanisms is lists, and I have lists for everything. But I separate the lists into categories. This helps me break things down so I don't become overwhelmed.
I know for a fact that this absolutely does not work for a lot of people I have known with ADHD.
As I have gotten older I have cared less and less about what people think. Somehow this includes myself. Who am I? Why should my thoughts and feelings be any more or less valid than some random person on the street who I not only wouldn't take advice from, but also might tell where to stick it if I felt judged by them in specific circumstances?
That's not really something that you can implement necessarily using strategy. And it's probably not something that happens to everyone, certainly not to the same degree.
Sometimes for me it's as simple as recognizing that I do need help and then the problem becomes asking for help or being honest about needing it. I loathe asking for help. It feels like failure to me. In the right circumstances that's enough to motivate me to do it myself. The anxiety of having to ask for help is worse than the lost feeling of missing executive function.
I don't know how to explain how to do that for another person. I spent 40 years developing a haphazard and cobbled together house of random coping mechanisms that work for me and I'm not sure how another person would implement them.
But I will say that what you describe does sound like a disorder with your executive function and not laziness. And I will say that ADHD is not the only Neurodivergent condition that has executive dysfunction.
Because that is the case it may be beneficial to you to get a second opinion not just about the ADHD but about just having executive dysfunction and the likely cause given your medical and psychological background.
The electronics might not be from Ford but that vehicle is a Ford Explorer, and probably one with the police package. Ford sells a police package Explorer to several police departments in the US.
"VoLTE (Voice over LTE) is the feature that routes voice calls over a 4G LTE connection, a crucial function now that carriers worldwide are phasing out their 2G and 3G networks. Without it, you might not be able to make phone calls at all on many modern networks. Similarly, VoWiFi (Voice over WiFi) handles Wi-Fi calling, routing calls over a Wi-Fi network instead of cellular — a handy feature when you’re in a building with poor signal."
Basically, some countries don't have access to VoLTE or VoWIFI.
Since they don't have official access they were using this to gain access (in places where pixel phones aren't on the market/not sold in that country for instance).
If VoWIFi/wifi calling wasn't available where I live I wouldn't be able to use my cell phone to make and receive calls and texts while at home. My place is a dead zone.
Some places also have spotty 5G service. So VoLTE would work better in those areas too.
Damn. Allegedly they hacked this nursery group, stole a bunch of PII including photos of children which they then posted to the dark web, while calling said children's parents in order to blackmail the nursery group for Bitcoin.
A lot of the problem with the Yale headline is that it wasn't actually studying job loss in relation to AI so much as it was trying to prove/disprove claims that "AI will take all the jobs". And so the way it goes about "proving" it's thesis so to speak is to look at what jobs have been eliminated from the workforce.
The jobs that CEO's have largely claimed will be taken by AI are menial jobs like fast food work. And lots of companies have in fact tried to do such a thing, looking at you Taco Bell. In most cases the AI implemented at drive-thrus etc have been rolled back because of backlash and lackluster performance.
The Stanford study was actually more trying to prove/disprove the real world affect on the job market, and who was the most detrimentally affected. And pretty much what it found is that whole jobs may not have been entirely eliminated by AI (as in the percentage of firings of people already working in the field) aren't as significant in the job market as one might think, AI is eliminating entry level positions making it so that young people can't enter the field and as it gets "better" it'll have a more and more detrimental affect that will eventually mean higher echelons in these fields won't have the workforce they need.
This is an oversimplified explanation based on me skimming both articles and I haven't read through the summary of either study completely yet.
I'm honestly not sure (given the price the cable likely adds to the price of the device vs the quality/longevity of the cable) that I want it. Apple has been notorious for selling their charging cables at a premium while making them basically as cheaply as possibly. Other companies have literally made their brand on being better than the OEM cables and chargers you get with devices.
Other phone manufacturers aren't exempt from the phone cable failure thing either. It's crazy to me that they were allowed to sell such shoddy accessories in the first place.
When you add in the ways that countries are trying to cut down on e-waste I can't say I'm surprised.
Mostly because I don't like gaming on windows and I want things to work without having to tweak every single security feature and all the junk I turned off every single time there's an update. I'm also tired of MS breaking things with updates and generally using the public as free beta testers to the detriment of their products.
Something that was already known. It's one of the reasons the privacy community online are so against using any old VPN you can find, and urge known good paid options.
That doesn't mean the Board doesn't think that "the CEO stepping down" will make the company look better to the people they pissed off by shoehorning AI into everything.
Are they going to be paying for extended support? My job is still on windows 10 (after they tried to upgrade to 11 and ended up having business applications not work as they should), but they are paying for extended support.
Nope. This was a rumor and the article title is misleading. Valve blocked NSFW updates of games that were originally labeled as SFW and then the dev tried to update with NSFW game elements.
I don't think it's allowed to drink and drive. Then again never stopped some cops, soooo...