If I didn’t file it as yet another ADD trait, my habitual lateness represented three factors that also express the addictive process: lack of impulse control—I’d just keep on doing whatever it was that caught my attention instead of making sure I was on time; failure to consider future consequences—“forgetting to remember the future,” in the words of psychologist and ADD researcher Russell Barkley; and lack of thought for the impact of my behaviour on other people. It became crystal clear that the addiction process—and the worldview that accompanies it—had polluted my life on levels I had not
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