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 Hueristic: Your greatest weakness/insecurity is often your greatest strength/asset.

Here’s mine. I have severe ADHD. Which obviously causes many issues with tasks in daily life. 

The plus side is of constantly being in a low dopamine environment is that when something increases my dopamine levels I figure it must be important. 

I then follow that instinct where it leads me. 

This superpower is the thing that allowed me to get into bitcoin in 2014. 

Greatest weakness/insecurity became my greatest strength/asset. 

What’s yours? 
 Bro I feel like you’re describing my personality in this note! 💯 accurate description of my journey! Only I didn’t find my way to Bitcoin till 2019/2020. I looked into it years ago but I was busy running around the streets like a knucklehead. 
 ADHD .. Hyperfocus, without a doubt.  No one can compete with the amount of information I can rip through and absorb when the subject intrigues me and  hyperfocus kicks in.  I can’t force myself to care about things that don’t interest me,  that’s a disadvantage when it came to classic schooling, but hyperfocus is a superpower. 
 oh 
 I’m retarded 
 I'll obsess over something until it's resolved or complete. Everything in life gets put to the side until it is. Probably a mental illness but good for stacking and business projects. Not so good in personal relationships. 
 Couldn't have wrote it better about myself. 
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 Being extra calm even in stressfull situations almost like a sociopath.  
 similar to you, I've been a disaster not being able to follow the simple path to complete the studies and being trasported by what I felt was more important and being bored by academic programs. I felt wrong for years, unless the things I reteined important revealed to be actually important, and the things I felt was retarded revealed themself as being retarded. Today I feel blessed for what I am and what I obtained, I disciplined myself and I learn "how I work" and to double down on follow my feelings. 
 mine is probably social anxiety and I can’t spin an upside rn 🥴 
 I bet if you think about it you’ll realize that there’s a tremendous upside that isn’t immediately obvious yet 
 Here’s one bc same: not going to expensive conferences and stacking sats instead comes naturally 
 You probably just like authentic connection :) boom 
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 Cptsd childhood trauma.
I don’t have a sense of self that was reflected to me.  I had to build and maintain it myself.
I treat every relationship with some trepidation but can connect very authentically because I don’t have a lot of social/family pressure.
Don’t fuck with me.  I don’t need you. 
 I have ADHD as well. I would call out hyperfocus as the superpower 
 Right hyper focus is the specific superpower, but our brains only trigger it when we’re getting a lot of dopamine from something. That’s why we hyperfocus. 
 Reading these replies, I'm pretty sure I have a fair case of ADHD. 
 What’d you do before the corn? 
 Small biz owner 
 Respect. Same. 
 Luckily the buisness started excelling at the same time I found bitcoin. The rest is history. 
 Timing is everything 
 You sell it for more btc or still own it? 
 Weird man same here, like here you go son stack with this 
 I constantly feel a day late and a satoshi short. 
 Bacon🤔 
 Spreadsheets? 
 Always getting really close to breaking 80 on a golf course but never actually doing it 
 Try Methylene Blue. Love it also to take before interviews. https://methyleneblueshop.com/blogs/news/methylene-blue-a-new-frontier-for-managing-attention-deficits 
 Uff thank you for the zap. First time for a post. This makes me addicted 😂 
 Have you read the unfair advantage? 
 The weird, the retarded, the mentally ill shall inherit the earth
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 Lazyness 😂

I never sold or traded bitcoin because the thought of doing so exhausted me. 

All my friends traded crypto and told my lazy ass to do the same.

Now I’m pretty rich and still lazy. 
 By the way @HODL , have you read Scattered Minds by Gabor Maté?

Great book for understanding ADHD. 
 I have to be honest. That isn’t the strength you think it is. I have a physical aversion to BS both in myself and others. 

This means I need to understand things from first principles. When the Bitcoin I bought back in 2016 started to go up, I started finding out more.

I’m still doing that and it’s the best journey of my life.

I also piss off a lot of people that choose stupidity or are required to follow other peoples dishonest scripts or policies without understanding why 😂 
 For me it’s self-consciousness, anxiety, and addiction. But I’ve used it to channel my creativity and wrote a novel, “Slender Notions”, which encapsulates the depravity of those depths, but provides me with a string of hope in the book and my life to overcome it. Life is what we choose to focus on, and you can channel that focus to do whatever you want.