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Hacking Your ADHD

Working With Your ADHD (Updated and Rebroadcast)

Hacking Your ADHD

William Curb

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8702 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

This week we're going to be hitting Working With Your ADHD. One of my biggest struggles with ADHD often comes from my belief that if I just tried harder I'd be able to overcome anything that my ADHD was throwing at me, but surprise surprise that just isn't the case. In today's episode, we're going to be looking at why we don't want to just keep trying to do the same things as neurotypicals, why we struggle so much with the idea of trying harder and also some of the strategies that are going to support us the best.

Find the show notes at HackingYourADHD.com/WorkingWith

Today's Top Tips

1. Pretending that we're neurotypical is exhausting and will lead us to use the wrong strategies for our brains.
2. We shouldn't focus on just trying harder. It's okay for us to just do less, especially when we are staying focus on what matters most.
3. The best strategies for working with your ADHD starts with accepting your ADHD. Make time to educate yourself about what's really happening in your ADHD brain and get involved with the ADHD community.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:08.4

I'm your host, William Kerb, and I have ADHD. On this podcast, I dig into the tools,

0:14.6

tactics, and best practices to help you work with your ADHD brain. As you may have noticed in

0:20.7

the title, this is an updated and

0:22.6

rebroadcast episode. I'm going to be taking a couple weeks off and have already started, actually.

0:27.4

While I was recording the episode on burnout, the idea of taking time off really hit home,

0:31.7

and so I've scheduled some, but I didn't want to leave you all high and dry while I'm off.

0:35.9

So I've updated two episodes that I felt were particularly important to me.

0:40.5

This week, we're going to be hitting Working with Your ADHD.

0:44.0

One of my biggest struggles with ADHD often comes from my belief

0:47.6

that if I just tried harder, I'd be able to overcome anything that my ADHD was throwing at me.

0:53.8

But surprise, surprise, that just isn't

0:56.2

the case. In today's episode, we're going to be looking at why we don't want to just keep trying

1:01.1

to do the same things that neurotypicals do, why we struggle so much with the idea of just trying

1:06.2

harder, and also some of the strategies that are best going to support your ADHD brain.

1:11.6

If you'd like to follow along on the show notes page, you can find that at HackingyouradHD.com

1:17.9

slash working with.

1:19.7

All right, keep on listening to find out the best ways we can work with our ADHD.

1:37.0

Despite my best intentions, I'll often find myself drawn to articles like 10 productivity tips that will change the way you work.

1:39.2

And even though I know better, I'll think to myself about how it seems like the author

1:43.0

is speaking to me, that these are the problems I face every day, and I'll think to myself about how it seems like the author is speaking to me,

1:49.2

that these are the problems I face every day, and I'll go, well, if everybody is dealing with these problems, maybe everyone's a little ADHD. Yeah, I'm sure you've heard that phrase before.

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