A lot of ADHD-specific advice is crap
A lot of career and productivity advice is made for and by neurotypical folks, and doesn’t really work for folks with ADHD (ex. “start with your biggest task first”).
But a lot of advice I’ve seen that’s specifically for people with ADHD isn’t that great, either.
One of the most common ones I hear is something like this…
People with ADHD find external goals and deadlines highly motivating because they create a sense of urgency. So, give yourself a deadline on a project, and set it for before the project is actually do, to trigger that urgency and motivate yourself to get it done.
External deadlines absolutely create a sense of urgency for folks with ADHD. It’s why we so often wait until the last second to get things done.
But a deadline you just make up for yourself?
That’s not an external anything. It’s an artificial, internal deadline that has no real weight or meaning. You know it’s bullshit. Your brain knows it’s bullshit.
So the deadline approaches and you go, “Yea, that’s bullshit. I’m not doing that right now. I’d rather to do {other, much more fun task}.”
If I had to guess, a neurotypical person came up with this, because I haven’t talked to a single person with ADHD who’s told me, “yea, that totally works!”
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