Nicht dein ADHS ist das Problem, sondern dein Umfeld

0:00I recently got diagnosed with ADHD and I suppose it explains a lot of the inaction I've always had. Should I just try to take meds for it or is that cheating or should I just try to use willpower for more discipline? >> Where is she giving me this one? >> Well, um, >> what have people told you? >> Oh my god. >> How many times have you been diagnosed with something? people diagnosed or people selling that [laughter] Alex HD is um so I'll tell you I'll tell you a speech that I gave to um someone that I cared about deeply um who let ADD ADHD and other letters I think ruin their lives. And so when I had the conversation with this individual, I said, "What you see as a handicap, I see as a superpower.

0:51It's all how we frame it." Somebody who has ADHD or ADD typically has a harder time abandoning tasks um and can focus on one thing for extended periods of time. Um the issue is that like when that happens, it's like everything else disappears. And so the idea that like you have something or don't have something, medicate, don't medicate. I'm not a doctor. Listen to your own whatever legal disclaimer we'll put below here. But at the end of the day, like [ __ ] needs to get done. And most of the time you have other things in your environment that are more interesting to you than the thing the task at hand. And so I will explain how I work and different people work in different ways.

1:32What has worked well for me as somebody who's very easily distracted is that I remove all stimulus from the entire from the environment. And so, let me give you an extreme example. If I were locked into a room that had no corners, all white everywhere around and there was nothing but a single black dot on the wall, what becomes the most interesting thing that gathers all my attention? The black dot. And so there's probably a black dot in the room that you are right now watching this, but you haven't noticed the black dot because there are other things that are competing for your attention. And so in order to focus, focus is through subtraction, not addition. There is no productivity hack that works. The only one is by removing everything else that removes productivity. And so somebody who is fully focused does literally nothing but the work. And the best way to make sure that you do nothing but the work is to make sure there's nothing else to do but the work. And so fundamentally I think for you, you would get a larger lift in your throughput or your work capacity by removing everything else that you do that is not what you intend to do. And that is my productivity hack for you.

2:41So whether you want to medicate yourself or not, that's your call. I don't think it's going to change much. I'll say it differently. There's a lot of people I know who take Adderall who still can't get [ __ ] done. So, I don't think it's going to be like you'll probably benefit more from just exercising and and limiting the stimuli in your work environment so that you have minimal disruptions. And I think what you need to do is you need to confront the work. The reality is that most times it takes significantly less time to accomplish a task than you think it does once you begin. But you delay longer from beginning the task than the entire task takes in totality. And so this is the classic. It takes 20 hours to become proficient at almost any skill. It's just that people delay the first 20 hours by a decade.

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