For writers that have ADHD, what's the best way to learn discipline?
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For writers that have ADHD, what's the best way to learn discipline?
For writers that have ADHD, what's the best way to learn discipline?
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By writing.
>what's the best way to learn discipline?
Beatings.
Beatings.
Learn to heal and strengthen your mind.
Years of hyperactive internet usage fried my mind. I couldn't focus, concentrate, or do anything for more than a couple of minutes at a time without feeling a paralysing urge to distract my mind and feed it superficial impulses (such as opening fifty internet tabs and trying to consume all of them at once).
Naturally, this lead to me being incapable of experiencing deep thought or genuine emotion. Instead, I always felt like I was stuck in a state of dazed lethargy, with regular dips into severe depression and anxiety because of how little rest my brain was getting from this constant stream of digital sewage. Sadly, the only way I knew how to soothe feelings of anxiety or depression was to procrastinate and binge even more.
It's a vicious cycle, but it's not impossible to escape it. What helped me the most were these four things;
• Do blocks of 50 minutes of pure concentration. Reading, writing, drawing, listening to music, watching a film, it doesn't matter what it is, as long as it is cerebrally challenging and it's the only thing you do. Do not allow any distractions to take your mind off whatever it is you're doing. Reading is one of the best options, since it has been proven by science to simultaneously strengthen your focus and let your mind rest (i.e. heal from all the hyper-active stimuli). If you can't reach 50 minutes, start at 20 and work your way up. Do these "cerebral blocks" as many times as you can every day. You will feel much, much more lucid, concentrated, focussed and relaxed very soon.
• Stay off the internet (and any other hyperactive technology) as much as possible. I cannot stress enough how important it is to limit your exposure to technology that consistently distracts your mind from one subject/task to the other. Such technology decimates your concentration, comprehension, and ability to experience and create. It is vital you keep internet usage to an absolute minimum.
•Take sleep and your physical health seriously. By now, everyone knows a healthy diet and sleeping schedule are vital for optimal brain functioning and good physical health. Find a good guide on how to stick to a healthy diet (IQfy's IQfy diet is all you need) and improve your sleep and take it seriously.
• Journal about your feelings. Yes, this sounds corny, but it helped me tremendously. I was a very solitary person and I never talked to anyone about my feelings. That meant I never had an outlet for my worries, anxieties, pessimistic thoughts, and depressive feelings, which caused them to circle around in my mind all day and feed on each other. I finally forced myself to make a habit out of writing about my feelings (pretending you're writing a letter to a psychiatrist or therapist can help) and I felt my stress levels and recurring intrusive thoughts lessen dramatically. It's a great way to get some perspective on who you are and what you want your life to be like, too.
Good luck.
I forgot to add that doing all of this has improved my writing.
Since I healed my mind and trained to be more focussed and "lucid", my writing output has increased and I feel the quality of it has, too. I am much more disciplined which means I get a lot more writing done, but I'm also much more creative and imaginative because I'm more relaxed and capable of exploring my thoughts and feelings without having the urge to distract myself the whole time.
By the way, when I say "healed", I mean my mind is vastly improved.
I still get the urge to binge and procrastinate, but I know how to control it now, without degenerating into a fricking slob who lies in his bed all day looking at youtube videos and darting from one tab to the other in search of another pathetic hit of superficial dopamine.
Anyway, good luck baby.
I've found this anon's comments are spot on for rebuilding an attention span that's been severely attenuated by modern technology. The biggest hurdle is actually implementing the strategy since modern technology is designed to be neurophysiologically addictive and elicit the biggest hits of happy neurochemicals possible.
The slow, discplined, ardous process of gradually rebuilding concentration and attention while resisting distraction isn't nearly as viscerally satisfying in the short run as quick hits of social media and internet.
I found some success with firefox website blocking extensions but the issue is they are trivial to deactivate in a moment of weakness so it will only help as far as your discipline already allows, but introducing any impediments or roadblocks to mindless internet use can be helpful.
If possible, the best (and quickest) way to "reset" your mind is to switch off every connection to the internet entirely. Go offline and stay there until you have built self-control and discipline.
That's not always possible, however. Hence, I suggest treating your path to more discipline the same way you would treat your path toward having stronger muscles: set up a training schedule and train as much as you can.
Treating concentration as a muscle really helps in seeing it as something you can work on and enhance just like you can enhance other skills.
TL;DR- Keep a list of what weakens your concentration and what strengthens it and then do as much of the things that strengthen it as you can.
dude its gotten to the point where i can look at YouTube and recognize a certain mathematical chance that video has of entertaining me which is a logical 0. to displicine yourself you can lay down and die or go through the motions first before betraying them. it wont be that hard
>Do blocks of 50 minutes of pure concentration.
I unironically do this, but with meditation.
It really changes how I perceive my life.
do meth like everyone else. adderall is cheap and easy to get
fix your life
stop jacking off
ritalin, not even joking
I already take Adderall
then drink some caffeine as well
it also helps if you don't eat
Underrated. Fasting can be great for the mind and the body.
yeah this too, any drug will have astronger effect on you if you haven't eaten in a while
adderall
Read Gurdjieff.
The ADHD writer is
a purely mental guy. Focus is Awareness and It can flourish after going
through
The Path of the three-brained.
There is no way to 'learn' ADHD, it's a neurological issue and anyone who tells you differently is anti-neuroscience boomer tier
Get one of those shocker wrist band things and shock yourself when you do something you don't like.
Last winter my friend's sound bar gave me a fricking hell of a jolt when I tried to turn it on once.
You know what I don't like to do now? Touch the sound bar, like at all. I drag my finger across the top of the whole thing hoping that will dispell the charge, but it never worked.
Yes, but that only prevents a bad habit or behavior. It's similar to Pavlov and the Behaviorism methods.
>uses negative stimuli (the shock) and association (the habit) to teach your brain to associate the two stimuli together, called aversive therapy, until your brain no longer likes the bad habit
That's well and good, but it won't magically cure OP's poor concentration or executive functioning. It's a much more complicated neurological issue, you cannot retrain an ADHD patient's brain using reinforcement methods like this. It also ties into working memory and spatial memory, these are fundamentally different in those afflicted with ADHD.
If you can figure out some method to solve ADHD, dyslexia, dopaminergic movement disordered patients and rewire whatever deficiencies exist be my guest. You'd be a billionaire. It's impossible to fix this shit. Probably genetic factors and poor upbringing. Fundamentally different ways of information processing
It's unironically beatings.
And also
Stuff like this promotes pop-psychology, folk-psychology. Broscience
Further reinforces every inevitable failure ADHD patients will face. Says nothing new even if it's a joke
I was diagnosed in my late 20s. It's a combination of using the pomodoro technique and taking methylphenidate at regular intervals throughout the day for me. Had cognitive behavioural therapy to teach myself the tools required.
It's never easy to start or begin writing, but try to start and not focus too much on form/grammar. The endless rewriting doesn't help your progress, so try to block that out and give yourself a set amount of minutes per day to proofread and filter out grammar/spelling errors. This trick has helped me heaps to continue writing for my PhD.
Good luck!
Write during divine inspiration
don’t bother with meditation or dopamine fasting, the solution really is adderall
if you have narcolepsy too then you can be sure adderall won’t frick you up. if you get “high” from adderall you don’t actually have adhd
T. Meth addict moron who believes fairy tales in order to justify his addictikn
I almost certainly have some form of ADHD or could easily be diagnosed with it because I'm high functioning meme autistic and the only way I've ever been able to do anything is by
>taking an objective interest in it
and
>building up a sufficient number of interrelated objective interests that they all kind of overlap, so that my innate objective interests branch out into a thousand other things and I can sustain interest in (almost) anything
I have read that Emerson wrote by waiting until he had epiphanic moments of inspiration, writing them down, and later stitching everything together into a coherent single essay. Paglia said she did the same thing, and couldn't understand any other form of writing. I think Hans Blumenberg did the same thing with his Zettelkasten to an extent. This is a method well-suited for an ADHD person with wide-ranging interests, who needs to knit them together over time into a coherent project of some kind.
I think a lot of ADHD, aspie behavior, and depression as a result of unfulfilled aspie behavior could be solved by long-term therapy focusing on "channeling" people's autistic interests in this way.
When you find something that does work, do not disclose it. Do not attempt to generalize it so that others may use it. Do not share it. As a writer, you must sublimate it into an aesthetic, and trust that if you have found something that others can benefit from, they must acquire it indirectly through your work.
It is a stupid question to ask. You can't delegate subjectivity. "Solve my problems for me!" There's already a response to that, and its called adderall. Can't you figure out the rest on your own?
Dopamine detox. Go without much tech (especially IQfy or any social media) for a few days, or just go on a daytrip with no tech and when you get back home you'll find reading much easier and genuinely interesting.
Modafinil and adderall and running
Discipline isn’t real
You have to live it
I'm already on Adderall