Faster Than Normal by Peter Shankman & Edward Hallowell

Author:Peter Shankman & Edward Hallowell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2017-10-03T04:00:00+00:00

SQUIRREL!: If you have the choice between finishing something now or leaving it for later, always finish it now. Finishing things now will allow you to “cross it off” in your mind and move on.

Learn to “Unenjoy” Things

I don’t even know if “unenjoy” is a word, but it totally should be. Amy, a college student on the West Coast, tells us how to “unenjoy” things.

One of the ways Amy combats the negative effects of her ADHD is to focus on not doing something she really wants to be doing until she finishes the thing she’s supposed to be doing.

“Well, duh,” I hear you saying. “If I could do that, I wouldn’t have ADHD!”

Not exactly. You’d still have it, but you’d have it with one fewer negative aspect, and that’s a good thing! Here’s how Amy does it:

Let’s say Amy wants to kill time on Facebook, but needs to focus on getting her paper done. She makes a simple agreement with herself: she won’t launch her browser until she’s written her paper for forty-five minutes. She sets a timer and works nonstop for forty-five minutes. She doesn’t do anything but work on her paper during that time. When the timer goes off, she resets it for ten minutes, browses Facebook and likes and comments on all her friends’ posts, and then resets her timer again for four minutes. During those four minutes she refreshes her water, goes to the bathroom, and stretches a bit. Then she repeats the process.

End result, she’s able to focus on her paper, or any other assignment she has, for a solid forty-five minutes at a time without distractions, because she’s trained her brain to know that the distraction, the thing she likes, will be there soon enough. According to Amy, it works like a charm, and she’s able to get through almost all of her big projects this way.

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