77 ADHDer: Your Memory Sucks
I Have ADHD Podcast
Kristen Carder
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 October 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This episode is kind of a good news/bad news situation :) If you have ADHD, then your memory is terrible. Specifically, your nonverbal working memory. That’s the bad news. The good news is, it’s not your fault and there are ways you can hack your memory. Tune in to find out how to be successful even with a sucky memory!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the I have ADHD podcast where it's all about education, encouragement and |
| 0:11.1 | coaching for adults with ADHD. I'm your host Kristen Carter and I have ADHD. Let's chat about the frustrations, humor, and challenges of adulting, relationships, working, and achieving with this neurodevelopmental disorder. |
| 0:27.0 | I'll help you understand your unique brain, unlock your potential, and move from point A to point B. |
| 0:34.0 | Hey what's up, this is Kristen Carter and you are listening to the I have |
| 0:42.0 | ADHD podcast. I am medicated I am |
| 0:45.1 | caffeinated and I am ready to roll I just through my phone across the room |
| 0:51.6 | literally through my phone across the room, literally through my phone across the room so that I could get |
| 0:59.6 | rolling on this |
| 1:03.0 | why is it so hard for me to just press record and start talking. |
| 1:08.0 | I asked my brain or like asked myself about 30 minutes ago, what would I do if there was no drama? |
| 1:16.7 | Like if I literally was incapable about having drama around recording this podcast, what would I do? |
| 1:25.0 | I would just do it. |
| 1:26.0 | There would be no thoughts, there would be no resistance, |
| 1:29.0 | there would be no, I don't want to, there would be no, I'm vulnerable |
| 1:32.0 | and I'm opening myself up to |
| 1:34.1 | criticism and exposure. There would be no this takes too long there would be nothing. I |
| 1:39.5 | would just sit down, press record, and start talking. |
| 1:45.5 | So that is the mode that I am trying to get myself into today. |
| 1:51.2 | What an interesting question, right? Like asking yourself yourself what would I do if there was no drama no |
| 1:56.5 | resistance no thoughts or feelings about the task just doing the task mind-blowing. I want to tell you something that happened this weekend, |
| 2:08.4 | and I hope it will be an example of what is possible for you when you totally screw up. |
| 2:18.3 | So I had a meeting scheduled on Sunday afternoon. |
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