I’m trying the biggest experiment I’ve ever done with regards to managing my ADHD:
Set a floor of only 30 minutes per day of deep, focused work on your most important project.
This is to enforce “no zero days.”
Protect the streak.
Even a small drip of activity, if it’s constant, can enable you to build great things over time. Yes, in the end, math is math, but overall, the tortoise wins.
And it has to be on your most important project. Can’t just be about anything.
This change has been suggested by ChatGPT, by analyzing my life history and behaviours.
This is effectively how I learned Japanese in one year. Another thing that helped was that I had defined a temporary finish line / milestone for myself:
Finish reading and listening to the transcripts of all 75 episodes of Bakuman.
It took me a long time to get to 75 episodes, but I kept laying one brick each day and built a wall.
The Tortoise wins against the Hare, almost every time.
Be a tortoise everyday, and you’ll automatically have lots of days when you’re a hare too. But the opposite doesn’t work.
