• Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Your adhd allows a “learn by doing” mode?

    Mine blocks me by starting & outlining the ‘ambitious project’ just for the very outlining process to birth a myriad of non-projects to kinda “learn by doing” small aspects of the main project bcs the main (first of it’s kind for me) protect cannot possible be imperfect … ofc whilst knowing perfectly how shitty it will inevitably be and that that is fine since the goal is to have it working & inevitably learn from it.

    So I just learn without ever starting the actual project.

    You can pretend much more easily that your project “isn’t unfinished”* if it has the status of “not yet stated” … Its not technically true, just easier to pretend.

    And a project never started can live in and continuously clog your mind for even longer than a an already started one that at least somewhat satisfied your curiosity.

    • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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      3 months ago

      One of the things that I went over with my therapist is getting out of analysis paralysis. Sometimes, just picking something from the high-level outline and going for it will help.

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      3 months ago

      I guess it depends on you. I’m not sure if it’s ADHD thing or not, but I just love researching random things (and forget them next day) and I guess that’s what makes me decent also at what I do for living.

      Someone asks a weird question in our friends WhatsApp group, and I end up investigating it for 2 hours and spamming the chat with everything I find - often annoying the people in that very chat =D

      And that transfers well into starting a project I have initially no fucking clue about

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        3 months ago

        Yeah, lol, thats me too, also helps me at work (well, not help “me” per se, but the quality of my work is much better).

        I love having approximate knowledge of many things.

        Its about the best thing the modern information age has to offer to a pleb like me. A few hundred years ago if I wanted to research a random topic I would have had to be very lucky, prob royalty.