Dirty Hands, Delayed Reinforcement
We can also use our ADHD to our advantage. If you’re in a shop and you see something shiny, you can tell yourself you’ll come back next week and buy it. This is a great hack because it bypasses the part of our brain that’s resistant to authority. You’re not telling yourself you can’t have the thing, you’re telling yourself you can have the thing la
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One of my ADHD quirks is that if there’s a Big Thing to do that day (doctor’s appointment, package delivery, big presentation) then 100% of my brain goes to that important event. I can’t miss it. Nothing else gets done until The Big Thing gets done.
Conversely, after The Big Thing gets done, nothing else gets done either because my brain –flooded wi
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THE MISMATCH BETWEEN IMMEDIATE AND DELAYED REWARDS