Okay so how are we to do the actual hardest thing on our list? All else is resolved (let's say) (I genuinely agree). I just want a nice complete framework to remember this article and what's missing is how to get the top item/hardest thing done.
Structured Procrastination (1995)
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is exceptionally early days (hours really), and perhaps over sharing a little personally but I found the same things hard and easy that you describe for working - personally I would work either by rapidly jumping between things (becoming the fix-it guy or go-to person for short things, I was totally fine being constantly interrupted because my head is doing that anyway), or working when exhausted so I found it h…
You shouldn't be evaluating your diagnosis and the effects of a drug upon it, to the point of advocacy , within hours. Your perception that you have been helped is not coming from the drug, it's coming from the conditioning before you got to the point of trying it. I was willing to put up with a lot of bullshit that would have to be rolled back if RFK just stopped prescription drug advertisements, which are definitio…
I have not advocated for anything. At best you could say I advocated for talking to a professional, and I do. I certainly didn’t say it would help them (try reading all the words).
> Your perception that you have been helped is not coming from the drug, it's coming from the conditioning before you got to the point of trying it.
I’ve had lots of things that were supposed to help and didn’t. I was told this may or may not help and is the first thing that has made a real difference in decades. Other than taking stimulants before and finding it weird it made me very calm.
I do not live in your country and do not see any prescription drug adverts.
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#153I've been using what the OP discusses for several years now, and it works.
In particular, as a scientist I can report that the brain is particularly creative when it is expected to work on something else; it comes up with very interesting and original research topics that are worth being captured in writing (to be executed later on).
The main task can be attacked (better) with Structured Procrastination by making a TO DO list on which we divide it into many small tasks. During procrastination, picking and completing a small task from the list is typically possible, and relatively effortlessly so.
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#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Next time I'll see such a response, I probably will quit on the spot; this is unbelievably cruel. Let me guess: you’d quit but your résumé’s out of date because you, like me, procrastinate updating it? (Sounds like a manager trying to manage you out; make things miserable enough for you that you’ll quit without having to go through the redundancy process…)
> Sounds like a manager trying to manage you out This is the norm from what management does to us. Evil techniques managers use: Isolate the IC. Put IC on a legacy or deprecated work stream. Don’t give IC anything that could increase their longevity. Work politically to get others with you on an empathetic level, such that they understand this person is a drag, in some way that doesn’t make you look frustrated or a p…
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#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is exceptionally early days (hours really), and perhaps over sharing a little personally but I found the same things hard and easy that you describe for working - personally I would work either by rapidly jumping between things (becoming the fix-it guy or go-to person for short things, I was totally fine being constantly interrupted because my head is doing that anyway), or working when exhausted so I found it h…
You shouldn't be evaluating your diagnosis and the effects of a drug upon it, to the point of advocacy , within hours. Your perception that you have been helped is not coming from the drug, it's coming from the conditioning before you got to the point of trying it. I was willing to put up with a lot of bullshit that would have to be rolled back if RFK just stopped prescription drug advertisements, which are definitio…
Maybe that's true of some drugs for some illnesses, but stimulants absolutely do just straight-up fix most of the issues you struggle with as an ADHD person, pretty much immediately (as in, they take about an hour to kick in, and then boom). As someone who's taken them for a couple years, it really is life changing, and it's obvious it's life changing within about an hour of taking your first dose.
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
As far as I can tell, ADHD exists on a spectrum. And treatment is also multi-faceted. Meaning you might want to take your ADHD meds and do whatever exercises your shrink suggests, and in addition see whatever self-help essays work for you, etc.
You're right but being medicated is usually the first step. The starting line so to say from which you can then explore various other methods and see what can help mitigate symptoms
Yes.
The medication often works great, if you can get it to work for you.
For some people that's less of an option. Eg the appetite suppression that comes with stimulants might be a welcome side-effect in adults, but it's usually a big no no in children.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I'm doing the same, or at least trying to do it. This post gives me hope as someone with ADD. I have a MTHFR mutation and cross-dominant eye, with a little autism spectrum, psychosis, OCD tendencies, depression, injury, sleep apnea, and insomnia. I recommend eggs, spinach, potentially fasting, walking, and maybe some kind of fidget device. I also recommend giving yourself a little slack. If you’re like me, we don’t…
> cross-dominant eye Is it relevant to the topic of this conversation? Does it cause any effects, either positive or negative?
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#158Never in my life have I wanted a single line of CSS more! To the author: humans with large monitors can't read text that spills across those entire monitors! Add a max-width: 1000px or something .
I'm wondering why Firefox on Desktop won't offer Reader mode on this page. The F9 shortcut doesn't work either. Does anybody know? Is there a content length threshold? The text doesn't seem that short to me.
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#159Never in my life have I wanted a single line of CSS more! To the author: humans with large monitors can't read text that spills across those entire monitors! Add a max-width: 1000px or something .
Try https://www.structuredprocrastination.com/index.php instead.
Just stumbled on it by chance when I clicked the side bar menu.
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#160I swear this is how I've gotten good at most of my hobbies. Playing guitar for 20 years has gotten me to a great level for a hobbyist, but not at all because of any virtues like discipline, self control, or routine. Rather, every day whenever other more important chores or duties loomed, I'd notice one of my guitars laying around, in my couch or my bed or leaning next to my desk. And most times, I'd give in. There's…
Man I wish I had a hobby like that instead of video games, lol. (I'm very much into video games that scratch the same itch as software development does, but with games they give more instant gratification and they present you the next objective in a fairly structured fashion, but often without pressure. I've binged Factorio, now I'm back on Rimworld, where my people just do the tasks they are supposed to and only pro…
If I were to choose between bearing the fruits of 20 years of practicing music and equal amount of time spent playing this kind of games, it would certainly be the latter, and I did try both.