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My #1 “productivity tip” for fellow weirdos and aliens with ADHD or ADHD-ish minds is - don’t suppress your mind, support it
At the start of every work session, write down what you intend to do
At the end, when you have deviated wildly, don’t despair - write down what happened
At the start of every work session, write down what you intend to do
At the end, when you have deviated wildly, don’t despair - write down what happened
The meandering mind is a feature, not a bug. IMO, it’s a sign that you have a stubborn curiosity within you that refuses to follow orders. This can be a great thing, actually, once you learn how to work around it. But few have the patience to teach this
I have a pretty severe case of this myself and I used to subconsciously beat myself up over it. But over the years I’ve learned to see that it takes me to interesting places. Thing is to non-judgementally go along for the ride, and *report your findings*
While it’s true that there are an infinite number of things to get distracted by, it’s also simultaneously true that most things are connected - and it’s all part of the same whole. So write it down. You’ll find patterns.
Da Vinci was clearly one of us, by the way. Check out his wonderfully idiosyncratic todo list. He didn’t have Twitter, so he used notebooks. Thousands of pages of notebooks. Write. Your. Shit. Down.
The writing takes extra effort, but it builds you up tremendously. And without it, you’re left scattered, incoherent, lost.
Note-taking is the Iron Man Suit for the meandering mind
Note-taking is the Iron Man Suit for the meandering mind
Which is an analogy that I use for myself, actually
Compressed:
Save your game!
