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Effectively managing ADHD with caffeine
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I love the implication that it takes god like focus to write an email
It really does lol. In my helpdesk queue I have some tickets from over a month ago, sometimes I need to reach god-like focus to finally break down the steps / mentally process their request and respond to them haha.
Is it possible and helpful for you to pretend you’re training a new hire and you have to show them all the steps of your job, including answering emails? I can do incredible things with the mom friend override, even if unmedicated.
It can sometimes work. It's something I taught myself naturally when I was pretty young that if I verbally monologed what I was doing it would help me get it done. Unfortunately due to the daily variance of my work it can be pretty easy to get stumped on a few tickets which can snowball into a full day of doing fuck-all.
I can't speak for anyone else, but all of the "trick yourself into thinking x" shit does not work for me. How are you tricking yourself if you know it's a trick? Doesn't your brain go "hold on, this isn't really a new hire, that's fucking stupid, I'm not going to do this right now"?
I just pretend I’m working on something for a new hire. I don’t believe it, but really playing it up helps. If I’m alone, I’ll straight up narrate my actions to an imaginary person.
Most of the other “trick yourself” things don’t work for me though. I also can't really reward myself after doing something to incentivize it, because I tend to get so distracted thinking about the reward that I convince myself I’ll work better after having it. Worse, even if I’ve actually gotten something done, I still don’t really ever feel a sense of accomplishment.
Yeah. At some point I realized that I could just skip right to the reward whenever I wanted lol
Fucking does, I'm with you.
It works better for me if there's actually someone there playing along, then it's more like... A theater performance, everyone knows it's fake but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Of course, needing an emotional support human in a world where everyone else is busy is a very hard request to accommodate.
If replying to emails was easy, everyone would do it.
Look, i can pick a lock or tie a tourniquet with only vague attention. Helps, even. I can compose a poem or analyze a piece of writing, do sone light soldering or whatever with a moderate amount of focus.
But email's are hard!
The only way I'm getting that kind of focus to write an email, is if my job is on the line and I've already put off writing it until the very last minute.
Happens about once a week