White lithium grease usually does the trick.
Bad part is that it leaves residue everywhere.
Thanks, dad
This isn’t a hack, but I try to do one thing at a time now.
If I’m cleaning the house and I’m tempted to deep clean a drawer or do some side quest that isn’t actually the thing I should be going, I’ll take note, say out loud “damnit focus, that isn’t going to help right now” and regroup.
It’s frustrating, but giving into my impulses is usually what makes shit take forever and never get done.
Also lots of caffeine and THC seems to help (?).
One of these days I’m going to try getting diagnosed for ADHD and get medicated, but making phone calls to do that and talking to someone sounds like a nightmare. That would be a truly unhinged solution for me.
Meditate and realize that you don’t know what you want to do.
Put on music that demands that i move and swear/scream my way through it but that works maybe 2 out of 7 times.
There’s also “let me pick something else to do” and sometimes I’ll accomplish my intended task via procrastinating my other chosen task. Or I get the other thing done which isn’t bad either ¯\(ツ)/¯
But absolutely miniscule amounts of food so hunger drives me out of my house to get things done.
Refuse to use AC because I love being outside in the summer but fucking hate leaving the house.
I feel this one.
I read a book that convinced me that anything I thought I ‘should’ do was completely optional. I did the 'had to’s as I’d always done, and if a ‘should’ came up I did it if I felt like it and was able to not worry about it if I didn’t. It was a pretty nice week. Therapist laughed at it when I told them, and that was the end of that.
Tell someone something is already done and that you’ll show them later.
Panic is a wonderful motivator.
My energy for school projects.
Least unhinged thing I do: request that people I know harass the fuck outta me to do chores. I’ll regularly have a friend remind me to go a chore after a half hour of gaming and I’ll begrudgingly go do the chore so I can go back to gaming.
Most unhinged: turn on angry music and think of people I hate to get energized and wound up by rage. Sometimes I’ll scream too. I have a playlist called Grrr that’s just all of my angry music but I’ll often fixate on one song.
Micro dosing THC, like if a dose is 10 (mg?) I eat 2.5. Not enough to feel the effects at all, weed usually makes me so stupid and totally unproductive, but weirdly, a small amount focuses me. I’m like just zoned enough to not over think anything, but totally present enough to complete everything i need to do, well.
Beyond that, no breaks, no eating, just coffee. I can get a ton done, the bit of hunger also focuses me. In this mode, I just let the productivity flow, and don’t try to necessarily stay on exact task. If half way through organizing all the toys in the house I remember to write a thank you note, I just get the supplies out, push a clear space in the toys and bang it out. Trying to ignore the impulses and stay perfectly on task just burns me out. Anyway, I get right back to the toys, and the letter is addressed with a stamp, so I end up with a bunch of tasks done.
I absolutely crash at the end of the day, feel sick from not eating with the caffeine, and my body hurts from zero breaks. But if I eat or sit at all I’m done for the day.
I do this somewhat also except that I tend to smoke a lot but I have a high tolerance so it just kind of mellows me enough to get into it and then I lose track of time and go to town. I used to feel like this with one or two beers too but I quit drinking and its a lot unhealthier to do as a regular thing.
Have you seen this xkcd?
Lol I had not seen it, but I feel seen by it!
I misunderstood this as hacks to get adhd people stuck.
Hand them a menu
What really gets me is packing for the airport. So many random things all need to be packed and I sometimes just walk back and fourth trying to decide what to pack next.
Ask them “are you sure you haven’t forgot anything important?” Just as they try to leave for the day.
Make them late as fuck for no reason
Umm do not do that to me!
Pretty, shiny flypaper
Blasting my brain out with really loud music usually helps.
Besides that, my brain is a lot either/or.
I am not great a eating balanced, getting a balanced amount of exercise, or doing anything else balanced.
When I went to university, I either studied 10h/day every day, or I did not study at all.
As soon as I start slacking on my own extreme goals for specific task, I lose almost all ability to get that thing done.
It’s extreme or nothing, it is now or not now.
Blasting my brain out
Oh no.
with really loud music
Phew.
Currently blasting the new single by Muse, Unravelling, in my office, trying to force myself to do a mundane task at work…
New Muse track, you say? :D
The latest was released today! It is awesome, but Unravelling is my favorite so far, but Hexagons, which was released today is also really good.
Muse has some great songs and good albums as well; however since Something Human I’ve been nothing but disappointed, personally.
I agree, so I was quite surprised when I listened to their latest singles this morning. The latest single, Hexagons, was released today.
Their new singles is called Hexagons, Cryogen, Be With You and Unravelling, and I actually like all of them.
I think I listened to Cryogen and wasnt a huge fan but I’ll definitely see about the others.
Also it seems ones.enjoyment of a song tends to grow parabolically with time so if I really wanted I could just listen to it a lot and eventually id like it. Im experiencing this with Tool now. Never used to like them really but I have been enjoying the Aenima album
Cryogen is a bit meh, but give Unravelling a go, it is IMO the best of the new songs, while Hexagons also have potential, but I haven’t listened to it enough yet.
But it also really depends on ones taste in Muse’s songs. They really differ a lot. One of my favourites is Exo-Politics.
True
Well I really like both the accoustic and original Sonething Human. I also like Drones (song in particular), Newborn, oh and I quite like all of the alternative song versions towards the end of 20th Century edition of Absolution Album
The intro to be with you sounds like it might up my alleyway
Maybe I’m just being obtuse but I really feel Matt Bellamy has the skill to be amongst the greatest artist (at lesst in pop/rock) but its like hes just not getting at it the right way or something. Its like hes edging greatness and that is frustrating
Not getting stuck in the first place. From the moment i wake up i keep going until everything is done or it’s evening.
Sitting down for too long and taking a rest is a good way to lose momentum.
That works, but I usually have to pay the price for it the next day.
That’s going to be the unhinged part or at least more of it.
In the morning, before the brain even understands what’s going on. Start again. Swallow the breakfast slop, chug down coffee, all while half asleep and then start moving again. The brain wakes up while already in motion.
I’ve noticed somewhere in the ballpark of max 1h in the morning, after that it starts to get harder to get moving. A time that I’m currently starting to run out of, so time to get moving and hit the gym.
Disclaimer: Of course people are different and it doesn’t work for everyone and it likely has a cost associated to it.
Yeah, I’ll just stay unproductive thanks.
Completely fair. Probably less damaging approach anyway.
Yeah when you finally hit the wall, you get splattered into a wet stain instead of some broken bones (I do not recommend)
Yeah, but I’m going to be a real ass about that one and leave that problem for the future me to deal with. If i can squeeze out a few decades, then my purpose has been served.
Good luck! I couldn’t last even to my thirties before I crashed and burned. And never recovered
I can do 1 week level of productivity and then 3 days of recovery doing nothing. This works best when I’m just a lowly level employee that works based on ticket but now there’s a lot more ad hoc work and I’m struggling.
I can’t continue doing that indefinitely, but its usually how I get through the week when I’m not super motivate.
That’s what makes it unhinged, not taking into account that the body cant do it indefinitely. It most definitely has a long term cost
Hey I found my solution! Just keep going and never stop . Food what’s that? You can do things in that time too!
Technically yeah, it’s completely possible to eat fast, though have to be careful with that one, max 10-15min otherwise you lose the momentum. It’s even possible to eat on the go while standing up or walking.
Ow I just skip lunch entirely. I have been doing that for so many years now
Don’t do anything, just doomscroll on your phone for hours until the absolute last minute and then panic and finish whatever it was you were actually supposed to be doing. Repeat until everything is done.
Stare at a wall for 15min. At some point I actually tart tripping
My wife and I are completely opposite with this one here. If I stare at a wall for 15 min, we are not sure I will get back to the surface again, so peaceful… while my wife would suddenly rather fix our lawn mower. She’s like the squirrel from Over The Hedge… She’s diagnosed with ADHD and I am with ADD, it’s quite obvious when looking at us, haha.
According to legend the monk Bodhidarma achieved enlightenment just by staring at a cave wall, it’s a time-honored tradition
I wonder what he was avoiding.
Idk How much this really is related to Neurodivergency and how much is addiction/suppressing depression, but for me being at least to some degree stoned definitely helps with getting stuff done. At this point, I can do pretty much anything while being stoned. Housework, cleaning, even coding. All of it can be done while being stoned.
