Omar Zenhom argues that most focus problems aren't clinical ADHD but habits built by notifications and short-form content. Learning to sustain attention gives you an edge because almost everyone else can't.
Most people today can't focus, not because they were born with adhd, but because life has made them functionally adhd. Now, listen, ADHD is a real thing. People get diagnosed all the time. But there's a lot of people that are inducing adhd, like, habits, and basically are functional ADHD people because of what they're doing. Content switching notifications, short form content, feeling like they're busy, feeling like they're important. And the modern world is actively making people worse at concentration, at really focusing. This means that if you can train to focus, you can have an incredibly unfair advantage. You're running a race where, like, 99% of the competitors have tied their shoes together, right? So they're tripping over themselves, and they really can't gain ground. When you're focused, it's so much easier for you to actually make serious progress in a short period of time.
