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Life hacks for studying with ADHD (translation)
User derieri writes about the college experience from the perspective of someone with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). This diagnosis significantly impairs a person’s ability to concentrate and get things done, but nothing is impossible if you use the right tools.
This article is both a resource for others and a reminder for me of habits that will need to be rebuilt as I begin graduate school this fall.
The techniques described can help target executive dysfunction and focus on the obstacles that hinder people with ADHD in school and work.
Below is a short list of tips, each of which will be described in more detail below.
· Manage energy, not time
· Get motivated by inertia
· Have a variety of productive activities
· Use the smallest incentives
· Explore the weirdness of the brain
· Take care of yourself and your environment
· Break tasks into smaller ones
· Take advantage of your impulsiveness
· Don’t memorize — use Manage energy, not time
It’s true that the ADHD brain has a hard time learning because it can’t focus on things it doesn’t find…
