[103752] in Cypherpunks
RE: importance of motivation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Sat Oct 3 00:16:15 1998
In-Reply-To: <000701bdede1$952200a0$3d8195cf@blanc>
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1998 21:05:47 -0700
To: <blancw@cnw.com>, <cypherpunks@cyberpass.net>
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
At 1:46 AM -0700 10/2/98, Blanc wrote:
>Regarding ADD and difficulties with attention spans:
>This could explain ADD/ADHD to some extent, and it probably would yield
>important insights for
>someone to examine their own true motivations when they have problems
>concentrating or paying
>attention.
>
>And there certainly seems to be a significant number of cpunks who claim
>to have this 'syndrome'.
Any trendy new diagnosis always gets some recruits...dyslexia, ADD (*), the
abuse excuse, etc.
(* Like any trendy thing, it gets renamed to keep its panache. ADD has been
renamed to something with four letters, which I now forget (must be ADD).)
We've had some nutballs and losers (luser spelling: loosers) on this list.
People who claim the reason they can't make a coherent argument or hold a
steady job is because of something some psychobabbler told them was their
excuse.
So what else is nu beside e over h?
--Tim May
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