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If you can improve something you've been working on all day very very mildly where it costs very little energy, it's fine. Switching to the next big thing costs a lot of energy due to context switching and having to learn a new mini-domain. It takes time, especially for someone like myself with ADHD, to adapt to a new context. What I mostly want to get accross is that it's unnecessary to view this behavior as procrastination (negative) and not just natural, energy-efficient and expected. reply reply reply reply reply reply reply 0: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving 1: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding reply reply reply reply This scene[1] from Malcolm in the Middle almost illustrates it perfectly except it's more Hal getting distracted on side quests that were spawned because he tried to change a light bulb... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0 reply reply reply reply reply Other times, when he needed a 'lower effort' comic for whatever reason, he'd have
If you can improve something you've been working on all day very very mildly where it costs very little energy, it's fine. Switching to the next big thing costs a lot of energy due to context switching and having to learn a new mini-domain. It takes time, especially for someone like myself with ADHD, to adapt to a new context. What I mostly want to get accross is that it's unnecessary to view this behavior as procrastination (negative) and not just natural, energy-efficient and expected. reply reply reply reply reply reply reply 0: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yak_shaving 1: https://en.wikti
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