Is it possible to take ADHD off "Hard Mode"?
We often hear that living with ADHD is like playing a video game where the difficulty slider is permanently stuck on "Hard." But while the challenges of executive dysfunction are very real, we sometimes make things even more difficult for ourselves by insisting on doing things the "right" (read: hardest) way.
In this classic monologue episode, William Curb explores the concept of Easy Mode. What would it look like if your morning routine felt effortless? What if your workspace didn't feel like a barrier to your productivity?
By utilizing the "Focusing Question" from Gary Keller's The One Thing, William breaks down how to find the lead domino that makes every other task easier—or completely unnecessary.
In this episode, we discuss:
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The "Easy Mode" Vision: Defining what a low-friction life actually looks like (and why a perfect life might actually be a bit boring).
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The Focusing Question: Learning to ask, "What's the one thing I can do such that by doing it, everything else will be easier or unnecessary?"
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The Domino Effect: Why focusing on small, strategic tasks creates the momentum needed to tackle the big ones.
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Environment Design: Using the three parts of a task (Setup, Doing, and Cleanup) to reduce the cognitive load of starting.
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Progress over Perfection: Shifting the goal from "fixing" your ADHD to simply sliding that difficulty scale down a few notches.
Mentioned in this episode:
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The One Thing by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
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The "Walls of Awful" concept (shoutout to Brendan Mahan)
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Checklists & Automation: Tools to make remembering "unnecessary."
"Sometimes life is hard because our ADHD is making it harder, and sometimes it's because we're choosing to do things in the hardest way possible."
Find the full show notes and transcript at: hackingyouradhd.com/191
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