Mind Control and Distraction: Mind Control Techniques for a Lifetime

Chapter 19 Distraction Techniques for Drawing Circles with the Left Hand and Squares with the Right Hand (1)
It is not a good thing to always keep your energy highly focused on one point.
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reason for distraction

Although ADHD is highly heritable, the environment also plays a role.A person can inherit genes from their parents, and then experience various experiences in life to induce various symptoms of distraction.If a child inherits the distraction gene from their parents, playing too many computer games increases the likelihood of distraction; while a child with the same gene who never plays computer games may not be distracted.

All inherited behavioral and emotional traits are influenced by the environment.If one parent is distracted, the child has a 30% chance of being distracted; if both parents are distracted, the child has a 50% chance of being distracted.Be warned, though, that this means the child may or may not be distracted at all.It's like flipping a coin, either side has a 50% chance of coming up, but even if the probability of heads is only 50% each time, you can still get heads 3 times in a row.In the average family, children are distracted 50 percent of the time.In a family where both parents are distracted, the probability of children being distracted will greatly increase, so we say that distraction has a family heredity.However, what role genes play still needs further scientific research.

If you just want to understand the genetic factor, I suggest you skip to the next section.If you want to know more, please continue reading below.

If one child in the family is distracted, there is a 30 percent chance that another child will be distracted.If the two people are adults, then this probability increases to 40%.This means that distractions that persist into adulthood are more hereditary than distractions that disappear by adolescence.

If you think back to high school biology class, Mendel studied genetic traits in beans and flowers and discovered dominant and recessive genes.remember?In the textbook, PP, Pp, pP, and pp in the square grid represent the genetic genes of the offspring, P stands for dominant, and p stands for recessive.

Although Mendel's theory is great, dominant and recessive genes are not enough to explain the formation of a person's personality.

For example, identical twins adopted from birth by different families will always have many different traits.Since they are genetically identical, any differences should be due to environment.When the common traits of twins are displayed by statistics, if they are traits with a degree of difference, such as height, weight or IQ, the correlation coefficient (correlation coefficient) is used to represent heredity; Dysfunction is expressed by the comorbidity rate (concordance rate).A lower correlation coefficient or comorbidity rate indicates less similarity between twins, and a higher one indicates more similarity.The correlation coefficient for the height of identical twins is 0, which means that the probability of two people being the same height is very high.If it is fraternal twins, the correlation coefficient of height is reduced to half of that of identical twins, that is, between 9 and 0.Identical twins share 4% of their genes, while fraternal twins share only 0% of their genes.Because the same is true of the correlation coefficient for height (fraternal twins have half the correlation coefficient of identical twins), we can be confident that genes are a factor in determining height.

In the behavioral sciences, most behaviors are between 50% and 60% heritable, such as IQ, personality, and mental illness, but attention deficit disorder is between 70% and 80% heritable.This suggests that distraction is indeed genetically influenced.

But we must say that it is only "influenced" by genes.Genes are not the deciding factor, as the environment also plays a role.As far as we know, genes and environment together affect personality, temper, mood, cognitive style and other behaviors.However, who has the greater influence?The heritability just mentioned is an attempt to determine this.The heritability can be any number from 0% to 100%, which represents the proportion of a trait that is genetically affected in the entire population.

Just because heritability is simply the ratio of genes and environmental influences in a population sample in a certain time and space, heritability will change during a person's lifetime.For example, among 6-year-old children, their religious beliefs have a 100% heritability rate, but among 18-year-old teenagers, they may have only a very low heritability rate.

After countless studies over the past 15 years, the heritability of ADD averages around 75%.This is considered a very high heritability in behavioral science.

Therefore, no matter how ADD is caused, it cannot be cured by changing the environment alone.Although ADHD is so heritable, there are currently no genetic markers or tests that can tell us how it is inherited.

It is possible that in the near future, tests with genetic markers will appear on the market.These tests can lead to new diagnostic and therapeutic orientations.We'll be able to tell a patient what his genotype is, not just what his manifestations are and what symptoms he has.

But even if these tests were to hit the market, they wouldn't be able to pinpoint exactly who gets distracted and who doesn't -- because some genes don't necessarily show up.The reasons include: first, there are many genes related to distraction; second, the symptoms of distraction are different, and everyone is different; third, living environment and experience can affect the expression of genes.So even if we can pinpoint who has the genes for distraction, we can't predict who will be distracted.

There are indeed several companies developing genetic screening tests, offering genetic screening services and diagnostic tests.These tests were first developed for ADHD and depression and have since continued to be developed to include genetic tests for anxiety, addiction and obesity.The advantage of doing these genetic tests is that we can tell the tester whether he has potentially dangerous genes, how to change the living environment, and how to avoid the disease.For people with the distraction gene, we suggest: the environment should be well-structured, with appropriate stimulation, regular exercise, and other beneficial life changes.If the test finds that the child has the distraction gene, parents can start to reduce the factors that easily cause distraction in the environment as early as possible, such as giving the child a reasonable diet, reducing the intake of sugar and additives, and increasing omega-[-] fatty acids intake, encourage children to exercise, develop good habits, cultivate the concept of time, let children understand the dangers of drinking and drug abuse, etc.

In addition to genetic marker approaches, the dopamine system may also form the basis for physiological tests of distraction.Dopamine transporter (dopaminetransporter, DAT) is responsible for transporting dopamine.By injecting radioactive molecules into blood vessels and scanning them with brain waves, scientists can track DAT in distracted adults as well as normal people.They found that distracted adults had 70 percent more DAT than normal people.If this technology is developed in the long run, it will become a valuable diagnostic tool.

A high concentration of DAT also means that the sample is addictive.Therefore, this test can also be used to detect people who are prone to addiction.In the past, we could only use family history to make guesses and judgments. Usually, addicted people have genes for addiction, but when grandparents and parents are asymptomatic, it is difficult for us to judge.Once we have these tests, simple brain scans or genetic testing can tell us things that family history can't.

Are we training kids to be distracted?It is likely that our society is training our children to be distracted, as all kinds of new environmental factors stimulate and trigger distractions.When discussing distraction, I must stress that while distraction is hereditary, it doesn't have to happen.What can be passed on to children is only the gene for distraction tendency, but it is environmental factors that really make distraction happen.Modern society may be the breeding ground for distraction.

First of all, in the electronic age, various electronic product leisure activities and electronic office take up a lot of our time.Televisions, mobile phones, Walkmans, Internet, game consoles, faxes, and e-mails have gradually occupied our lives, and face-to-face interactions between people have become less and less.

In 1986, Neil Postman (Neil Postman) saw this potential danger and wrote a book called "Amusing Ourselves to Death" (Amusing Ourselves to Death).ADD or not, children raised with light, sound, and electronics are often unable to engage in long-lasting conversations with others.Jane Healy has written two books on the subject, Endangered Minds and Failure to Connect.The trend seems to be continuing, with a recent study showing that preschoolers who watch more than two hours of TV a day grow up to be 30 percent more likely to be distracted than other children.

Another science that could be harmful to this is chemistry.The more we understand how to use chemical additives to increase agricultural and livestock production, the more serious the environmental pollution will be, and the more unpredictable its impact will be.In today's society, we have been immersed in so many chemicals, air, clothes, cosmetics, detergents, drugs, food, water... These make our life more comfortable and safer.But what comes next?

How likely are these chemicals and genes to cause distraction?No one knows.

In recent decades, not only has the number of distracted people increased dramatically, but the number of people suffering from asthma has also increased rapidly, from more than 1980 million people in 700 to 2500 million people today.At the same time, the number of patients with autism and Asperger's syndrome is also increasing significantly.The reasons for the rapid increase in attention deficit disorder, asthma, autism and Asperger's are still unclear.There are all kinds of health hazards in modern society, such as the overstimulation of electronic products and the effects of chemical pollution, and these two are the most harmful.All we can do is watch less TV, play less video games and computers, spend more time with friends and family, eat healthier, exercise more, and avoid exposure to chemicals as much as possible.

Distractors as others see them and themselves as they see them

In fact, many people have misunderstood the term "distraction", thinking that distraction means not being able to concentrate on doing things, but half-hearted.But in fact "distraction" is complex and full of contradictions.Distractions can make you behave differently at different times and in different places.

The paradoxical qualities that distraction produces include:
·Energy and stamina are relatively full (but sometimes very lazy).

·The brain thinks very quickly and is prone to cranky thoughts (but sometimes can be engrossed).

·Not good at making plans and doing things without considering the consequences.

· Lose your own code of conduct, easily impulsive.

· Strong creativity.

·It is less likely to fall into depressed emotions than ordinary people.

· Lack of organizational skills (but at some point will have special organizational skills).

· Procrastination (but sometimes so urgent that I have to do it now).

·Sometimes tough attitude, sometimes easy to compromise.

Poor memory (but sometimes has a good memory for useless information).

· Strong interest (but sometimes no interest in attractive things).

· The world view is unique.

· Easily angry (but sometimes very soft-hearted).

·Smoking, drinking or even taking drugs, or have other addictions, such as gambling, shopping, sex addiction, overeating, Internet addiction, etc. (but sometimes do not want to touch any of the above).

Worrying worrying unnecessarily (but feeling like it's no big deal when you need to worry).

·Refused to follow the trend, like to be independent and unconventional.

· Does not like to accept help from others (but is enthusiastic about helping others).

· Excessive generosity.

·Easy to make the same mistakes, not good at summing up experience and lessons.

·Tends to underestimate how long it will take to do a job or get to a place.

· Other diverse traits.

Just as there are no two identical leaves in the world, so are distracters. The variety of distractors themselves makes it difficult for us to understand why they change.It is undeniable that distracted people are different from ordinary people.Although they overlap and have the same characteristics, the differences are often very obvious.An ancient poet once said: "There is no clear dividing line between day and night, but no one can say that day and night are the same."
So, let me try to talk about ADHD in my own words.First of all, I don't have a good opinion of the term Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), which probably means I'm also a patient of this disorder.I think the really sick people are those who stare at others as a whole, hold on to every detail and every procedure, and like to find fault with others.I diagnosed them with "Attention Hyperactivity Disorder".They have learned this trick since they were young--on the one hand, they seem to obey the teacher obediently, and on the other hand, they secretly go to the teacher to give a small report to the disobedient classmates.Don't you like being like me, who would rather be under-focused than over-focused?Who wants to stare at every detail all day long?People who can sit motionless in a chair for a long time may have mental illness!All in all I think people without distractions are downright boring.Who made the invention?Who is promoting the development and progress of human civilization?Those of us who are distracted, of course,
While I can't change the reality and society still encourages ADHD, I'm going to give the distracted person an excuse.Although distraction has existed since ancient times, it is only in recent years that people have truly discovered and recognized it.Some people think that distractions don't exist because they feel like they've never been in contact with them.Based on my more than 50 years of life experience and more than [-] years of medical experience, I believe that distraction does exist.Distraction is as real as any other state of mind, but we can't see it with the naked eye, we can't see it with a microscope or an X-ray, so we can't make precise judgments.

Distraction is like driving in the rain when you know the wipers are broken but can't stop.The windshield is blurry, but you can't slow down.You continue to drive fast to see what's going on.You are unwilling to stop, and you feel that the faster you drive, the better.It's just in your nature.

Distraction is like listening to a live football game on the radio with poor reception.The more you try to adjust the sound clearly, the harder it is to hear.Occasionally, the noise disappears for a while, and you can hear clearly, but just as you are about to concentrate on listening comfortably, the noise comes again, and you feel very uncomfortable.You're so angry you want to throw the radio on the floor.If someone happens to come up to you right now and ask how you are feeling, you may lose your temper with him.Distractions can energize you, and your brain works like a sports car, leaving ordinary cars far behind, except that the brakes are more laborious.When you have a good idea in your mind and start to act, but before you finish this thing, the second good idea suddenly appears, so you do it.At this time, the third good idea came out again.Soon, people around you will say that you are unorganized, rebellious, too impulsive, etc., in short, all kinds of nasty words, which are really wronged to you, because you obviously try to do everything well.This is when your brain seems to be breaking down.You are constantly shaking your legs, humming, tickling, and stretching—these are all signs of inattention and lack of interest in the eyes of others, but in fact, on the contrary, these small movements are all done by you to concentrate.Walking, listening to music, or being in a busy city will give you more focus than staying in a quiet room.For example, I can't stand reading in the quiet reading room of the library. Others think it's a quiet paradise, but for me it's like an execution ground.The average person can plan their time and do one thing at a time for a period of time.But distractors have overlapping schedules, and everything can happen at the same time.This can be scary at times.Not being able to choose what to do first, not knowing what to wait, so the distracted are always on the move.

Distracted people have a very simple concept of time, and they tend to only divide time into present and non-present.If the boss tells him that there is an important meeting to be held in three months and he needs to start preparing, he will think that this is not the work to be done now, and then forget about it.It wasn't until three months later, when the meeting was approaching, that it was too late for him to start.It is conceivable that the angry boss said to him: "It would be great if you could have prepared earlier and taken this matter to heart! You are the most talented employee in our company, but unless you tidy yourself up, no matter in You’re not going to succeed in this job or in another job!” No wonder so many undiagnosed distracted people suffer from depression, anxiety, and other mental illnesses.Because they never know what they said wrong, what they forgot, or why they always appear in the wrong place at the wrong time and so on.

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