The ADHD Skills Lab ADHD Creative Strategies with Andy J Pizza: Hard Does Not Mean Bad
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Mar 9, 2026 Andy J. Pizza, author, illustrator, and Creative Pep Talk creator, shares his shift from winging it to building creativity on purpose. He talks about overcoming creative droughts, battling perfectionism and rejection sensitivity, using tiny daily practices, and turning collaboration friction into clearer roles. He reframes difficulty as growth, not failure.
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Keep A Portable Daily Story Habit
- Do build a tiny daily creative habit you can do anywhere to keep momentum and avoid boredom.
- Andy J. Pizza writes for ~20 minutes each morning and uses pockets of time (doctor's office, errands) to draft story pieces.
Juggle Projects To Use Incubation
- Insight: Juggling projects can improve creative work by enabling incubation and reducing ego attachment.
- Andy says switching between projects forces 'play with the problem' and lets ideas gestate before critical revision.
Publish Work As Live Experiments
- Do share imperfect work publicly as experiments to get feedback and maintain momentum.
- Andy treats internet posts as works-in-progress and uses his podcast and episode art to deliver regular creative dopamine.
