Welcome to Hacking Your ADHD, part of the ADHD Rewired Podcast Network.

I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD.

On this podcast, I dig into the tools, tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain.

In last week's episode, I talked about the hot-cold empathy gap and how it can be hard for

us to really remember or predict how our state is going to affect our future actions.

One of the consequences of this is that we often label ourselves as lazy when we didn't

do something.

Our cold state brain tells us that we should have just done the thing, all the while

neglecting how we felt. This disconnect is what leads to a lot of our self-judgment, and in particular,

those of us with ADHD often times ourselves labeled, lazy. Why didn't I walk the dog? Well,

because I was feeling lazy. Or maybe I was feeling overwhelmed with work.

Or maybe I couldn't find the leashes.

Or maybe I just couldn't get up the energy in the afternoon.

When we don't do something, it's easy to label it as lazy.

But often, that doesn't tell us what's really going on.

Today, we're going to be exploring the idea of

lazy and how we might want to start looking at that word just a bit differently. If you'd like

to follow along with the show notes page, you can find that at hacking your ADHD.com slash lazy

myth. But first, need help staying focused? Adult study hall might be the answer for your

wandering attention. I've talked about the magic of body doubling and how it can do wonders for your

productivity. If you want something structured and with dedicated work sessions for things like

working out, cleaning, and writing, let me direct you to ADHD

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