Can Someone with ADHD be 'Indistractable'?
In my work as a behavioral designer, I come across important stories on how psychology influences our behavior. Every week, I share my round-up of the most important stories at the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. I hope you enjoy them!
Why Talking to Strangers Is The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Mental Health (MEL Magazine) If we can only break through the awkwardness barrier striking up conversations at random may be one of the cheapest forms of therapy there is.
Can Someone with ADHD be 'Indistractable'? (NirAndFar) It turns out that anyone can benefit from using the Indistractable Model, but it can be especially helpful for those with ADHD.
The Benefits of Optimism Are Real (The Atlantic) Having a positive outlook is the most important predictor of resilience.
Don't Write About What You Already Know - Instead, I'm 'Writing to Learn' [AUDIO] (Podcast) Many authors write what they know. I don’t. I am writing to learn about what I don’t know. For me, writing is a wonderful way to go deep on a problem I’m struggling with. You can read the Nir And Far blog post on: Don’t Write About What You Already Know — Instead, I’m “Writing To Learn” https://www.nirandfar.com/writing-to-learn/
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-Nir
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Nir Eyal is formerly a Lecturer in Marketing at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. His first book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products, is an international bestseller and taught companies how to design more engaging products. His second book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life, reveals the Achilles' heel of distraction and provides a guidebook for getting the best of technology without letting it get the best of us. Nir blogs at NirAndFar.com
Vincent Zimmer Dr. Sebastian Schmidt-Kaehler Perhaps an interesting framework for ADHD Hypt Health
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2 年And to add to it, all models are wrong, but some are useful. None of your models have helped me as they are all cognitive. And my brain doesn't listen to cognition or reason. The answers are there for us to find... in our own contexts.
Curating valuable patterns for customer-centric people driven Product cultures. Enabling flow in adaptive organizational ecosystems.
2 年I have ADHD. And proud of it. It is not being "indistractable" - which is a fallacy of thinking and an impossible programming of the humans that we are but to be distracted and figure out how to live with your distractibility and make the best of it.