They measure motivation by how hard the person works at achieving that goal, of course if you measure it that way the pills will "increase motivation". ADHD isn't a failure of motivation, it is a failure to put in effort doing stuff you are motivated to do. It doesn't magically make you motivated to do stuff you don't care about.

> You might be right, but, at least for me, the number of tasks that meet that criteria is too low to a useful metric.

Do you file taxes? Pay your bills? Those are simple and high reward tasks, every persons life is filled with such things.

Doing taxes and bills are not what I consider high reward more like moderate penalty. And, no, I don't pay my bills: everything is auto-pay.

> Doing taxes and bills are not what I consider high reward more like moderate penalty

Try not paying bills or filing your taxes and you will see what happens, doing the task prevents you from getting a severe punishment (relative time spent on the task), so it is high reward. People with ADHD tend to be late paying bills or doing taxes and struggle with filling in forms in general, ie they regularly fail to do simple high reward tasks.

How sad would it be if most or all of my "high reward" tasks are anti-"severe punishment?"

Are you implying that there is some other way to live? Because if so, then please help me find it lol.

I hope there is some other way but clearly I don't know it.

Me browsing HN instead of filling out an invoice so I can get paid so I can pay my tax bill before the end of tomorrow haha. Fiine, I'll get back to it after this comment..

> You’ll pay a late filing penalty of £100 if your tax return is up to 3 months late

As ADHD taxes go this one's pretty chill. It's a decent chunk of change sure but compared to the rest of my finances (legacy pre-diagnosis debts I'm still grinding down).. it's on the low end lmao

Got it done in time. Cheers for the motivation, HN! :)