Alastair Davies

When you make something, when you improve something, when you deliver something, when you add some new thing or service to the lives of strangers, making them happier, or healthier, or safer, or better, and when you do it all crisply and efficiently, smartly, the way everything should be done but so seldom is—you’re participating more fully in the

The higher my HRV trends, the better I seem to be able to focus, avoid distractions, and stay motivated.

Long-established neural pathways persist. It is the same with ADHD behaviors that have existed over years or decades.

• Introducing a long delay between when you do the work and when it is shown to the world. Annie Ernaux writes about this in A Simple Passion, a memoir about how she becomes obsessed in a banal way with a man who is having an affair with her—the thought that others will read

Explicitly connecting tasks to higher-level goals can help motivate action. It creates a link to something we are, hopefully, passionate about. And passion is one of the things that can engage our interest-driven ADHD brains.

Progress requires work, regardless of whether you have ADHD. Remind yourself that if you are experiencing frustration, it is likely you need to stop and figure out a different way to apply your effort.

there will always be a slippery slope back to the old behavior, particularly the older you are when you get started.

You have an amazing brain. Learn from it. Leverage it. Work with it.