I am a jack of all trades because I have ADHD.
Exactly. There’s a reason why the full description is “Jack of all trades, master of none”
the full saying is “a jack of all trades, master of none is oft better than a master of one”
“…ofttimes better than a master of one.”
Because we shouldn’t have masters, hierarchies are bad.
Humans are literally Jack of All Trades. The big evolutionary advantage of brain power is that it lets animals adapt to new things in a single lifetime, rather than having to evolve adaptations to it over generations, and humans primary evolutionary advantage is our massive generalized brain power.
Capitalism says to specialize, human nature says to be a jack of all trades.
I assume this community will disagree strongly, but ADHD honestly does not seem like an actual disorder (as in, an objective detriment, and one that evolution would select against in the long term), so much as just our brains not being particularly suited to capitalism and capitalists gas lighting the masses into thinking that’s abnormal.
Some guy wrote a book about this but basically it’s hunters (in the Hunter-Gatherer sense) stuck in a farmers world.
SO back when humans primarily hunted and were nomadic, prior to the advent of agriculture and sedentary farming (where seasonal planning and forecasting was required), a lot of required traits for survival: high-vigilance, impulsivity, and novel-seeking - were what made great hunters and survivalists.
People with ADHD just have the wrong OS for this era or more like they are peak human (Windows XP) and current humans are bloated Windows 11… it’s evolutionary enshittification.
I assume this community will disagree strongly, but ADHD honestly does not seem like an actual disorder…
Not fitting into Capitalism has nothing to do with common ADHD traits such as lack of emotional regulation, time blindness, and our tendency towards risky behaviors.
So yeah, I do strongly disagree with your attempt to blame the negative aspects of ADHD on an economic system…because it’s bullshit.
I could be anything from an Mesopotamian King to a rider in the Mongol horde to a Medieval Peasant and my brain would still have the same damn problems.
Not fitting into Capitalism has nothing to do with common ADHD traits such as lack of emotional regulation, time blindness, and our tendency towards risky behaviors.
All of those traits generally make you a less predictable and harder to manage worker. Capitalism absolutely cares about those traits very significantly.
I could be anything from an Mesopotamian King to a rider in the Mongol horde to a Medieval Peasant and my brain would still have the same damn problems.
This is literally impossible to say. Your brain would still work similarly, but it would have been shaped by entirely different stimuli and environment, so it would not be working the same. It’s also entirely possible that those tendencies are beneficial in different historical contexts. Other systems like feudalism may also similarly view ADHD as a detriment, but that doesn’t mean that every system / context does.
I’m a millwright with adhd. I’m a fully qualified jack of all trades.
One preceded the other.
Can I report this? I’m in this meme and I did not consent to that.
Better than a “John” of a… uhm… particular trade.
Don’t describe my career so accurately
I’m more like a 4–8 of all trades if we’re using playing cards as a scale.
maybe a 10 at Balatro
Pfffft you’re just jealous…
Some call it ADHD. I call it novelty seeking. I mean, I’m probs somewhere on the spectrum, but if ADHD is abnormal … I don’t want to be normal. Normal seems boring and narrow minded.
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I CAN BE BOTH!
Both, it’s almost always both
I like to tell people: “if there’s one thing I know, it’s trivia!”
Looking at the tin whistle I’ve had for over a decade… it’s just been gathering dust… but who knows, maybe I’ll have motivation to learn it once more.
