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I write down a list of tasks I want to accomplish that day, and then tick them off as I go. Once I get to the end of the list, I'm done for the day and can have a beer (or go to the gym, depending on the day) :).
Then the next day it's rinse/repeat.
Quick and dirty hack is change your surroundings. Go to another room, sit at different desk, on different chair, on a different clean computer (with different os?). Don't open any of your usual distractions there. Block them in hosts file (don't even check if you blocked them successfully).
You'll regain bit of your focus. At least till you leatn to slack off there too.
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the worst advice ever. If you have medical issues - take care of medical issues in the best way possible. Challenging yourself = denying yourself treatment. Challenging yourself is not a treatment for something like sleep apnea.
Yes but the evidence for ADHD is dubious. We have a long way to go when it comes to understanding the human mind. Anyone, not just people with ADD, can increase their performance with narcotic stimulants. Just don't be disingenuous about it.
1) stimulants and narcotics are two very different things, with diametrically opposite effects.
2) Not everyone can improve performance, due to U-shaped response curve. Those that are functioning optimally will actually see their performance decline.
3) ADHD is one of the best understood disorders. Impaired working memory (i.e. ability to concentrate) can be easily diagnosed quite definitively with CPT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_performance_task
It is of course personal choice in the end to decide on treatment, but if the ability to concentrate is in the bottom 1-5% - it is going to be painfully obvious to any half-decent paediatrician.
But to make any of it to stick I had to stop thinking of my productivity as some intellectual problem and myself as the master of my attention.
You’re not in control of most things. You’re trying to steer an elephant. Accept it, it’s easier and it’s true.
Then — with a slightly more realistic view of yourself set up processes and guardrails to keep your brain in line. Stimulus control sounds like a good first step. Check out StayFocused for Chrome and then delete all other browsers.
Add or remove one thing a week until you’re where you want to be. Good luck.
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Yes but the evidence for ADHD is dubious. We have a long way to go when it comes to understanding the human mind. Anyone, not just people with ADD, can increase their performance with narcotic stimulants. Just don't be disingenuous about it.
Just because ADHD is poorly understood and often diagnosed incorrectly does not make it any less debilitating to those who have it and certainly does not imply that they are not in need of medication. Yes the medication can be abused by those who don't need it to get an edge. This is what makes it a controlled substance. Opiates can be abused too and have the same effect on everybody. The difference is that people in…
This statement is so out of line I had to chime in. I was diagnosed with ADHD as a child. I was medicated for a few years, before I stopped taking the pills without telling my parents (they were being pressured by the private school I was in to medicate, I was kicked out shortly after they found out I had stopped.)
Those years are a complete empty window in my memory, and left me with physical ticks that _decades_ later I still have to suppress, alongside no actual tools for dealing with the symptoms.
Medication is not a silver bullet. Not all ADHD cases need to be medicated. Find what works for you, whatever the hell that is, and don't listen to dogma. For me that was coping mechanisms combined with a realization that much of the "attention deficit" was because I _didn't want to pay attention to the shit I was supposed to_ and _that's completely reasonable._ To insinuate that I haven't tractably found success ("baseline normal") with a non-medicative approach in my life is frankly insulting.
When this happened to me I got a ton of advice (similar to what’s been written by other posters) and it was all great. But to make any of it to stick I had to stop thinking of my productivity as some intellectual problem and myself as the master of my attention. You’re not in control of most things. You’re trying to steer an elephant. Accept it, it’s easier and it’s true. Then — with a slightly more realistic view of…
The best solution is to simply delete all your social media accounts that you don't use professionally (strategically).
I found that I do that when I feel I haven't been around enough people. Perhaps upping the priority of talking with people, anyone can help you feel better. Does this seem to resonate with you? It could be any reason
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the worst advice ever. If you have medical issues - take care of medical issues in the best way possible. Challenging yourself = denying yourself treatment. Challenging yourself is not a treatment for something like sleep apnea.
Yes but the evidence for ADHD is dubious. We have a long way to go when it comes to understanding the human mind. Anyone, not just people with ADD, can increase their performance with narcotic stimulants. Just don't be disingenuous about it.
I have a similar problem which is ruining my life. Not only I cannot focus on my work, I cannot focus on anything. I'm throwing my degree and my life down the toilet. There's no light at the end of the tunnel right now. It's the worst feeling I've ever experienced. I know what I should do but I can't.