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The things that helped me and help me most to write dissertations - picking the optimal time on average to write (tough with dynamic conditions though) - I only write in the morning, often very early. That's when I am mostly sharpest, cognitively and energetically. - when I finish writing for the day, I write down on a post-it or a calendar entry where I need to pick up writing and roughly what I want to say. Lacking clarity creates barriers to starting. This hack reduces that. - I've conditioned myself to want to write/be able to write by having a trusted 89 minute techno remix to listen to...it pretty much inducts me right into focus now 🤣🤣🤣 stick the headphones on and it's like a sleeper cell agent activates... - using sharing/celebration as a motivator with academic peers/supervisors - the rule is: I'm allowed to share ANYTHING cool, novel, elegant - however big or small - as long as it is FINISHED Those are my biggies 👍👍👍 Good luck!

#ADHD PSA... What may be seen as one single task to a non-ADHDer may be more than one task for many of us and, therefore, subject to (more or less humorous) interruption at any given time. Putting shoes on is often construed as "one task". Not for me. It's two. One task slot for each shoe. Do I ever put both shoes on without any pause to do something else my attention is drawn to inbetween? You bet your sweet life that I do not! As evidenced by me writing this post "between shoes". I suppose there could be self-coaching or attention/focus hacks around this but...let me give it thought and when I've earned my spurs by putting both sets on without an interruption, I'll get back to you 🤣🤣🤣 #ADHD #AuDHD (PS I'm not saying this happens to every ADHDer or making claims about the extent to which is does/doesn't happen for non-ADHDers. I'm just saying it's a thing for a fair proportion of ADHDers)