When does your brain think something is worth the wait?

People with brain injuries differ in their ability to figure out when waiting pays.

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[Dark Jaguar]

I thought that was people being more loss averse and it ironically making them refuse to turn the sunk cost into a "loss" despite it costing more in the long run.

Edit: There's the Prospect theory model. A little counterintuitively phrased, loss aversion leads to risk seeking because people are willing to gamble (risk) to have a chance to "not lose" rather than pick the guaranteed "lose less" option.

Is that why some people ask me, when I state I don't desire to take the same risk they do, "why do you fear success?". Like, I don't even think "fear of success" is a real thing, at all.

 

[Dark Jaguar]

Hello fellow ADH-Premie!
I got a sweet Harry Potter scar from being dropped onto a fireplace mantle as a child and I'm sure that didn't help my Prefrontal Cortex... but yeah Its SUCH an uphill battle seeking any kind of worthwhile reward with ADHD... whether it be excitement to get ready to see friends hanging out, women, or most tragically I used to love playing guitar writing music everyday for hours but now I don't see the point most days after constant bandmate failures and friends letting me down not showing anywhere near as much interest.

My preferred modus operandi for motivation is now either trying to juggle as many novel or nearby ideas & tasks as I can for several hours until I completely lose interest in all of them for a few days OR I simply wait around "staring at the unchanging wall/coin" doing nothing in a certain area or activity hoping something exciting happens around me when nothing usually does XD ramble over <3

That's ADHD? Here I just thought I was lazy... For the record I've never been diagnosed with any mental disorder other than "disassociation from reality" because apparently some councilor when I was an 80's kid noticed I was talking about video games a lot.