Episode 39: Joey and Jeremy

Focus and Chill - productivity tactics for AuDHDers and other neurodivergent folks

Welcome to episode #39

Questions

1. Hyperbolic discounting
   1. The brain doesn’t pay attention to rewards
2. Avoiding motivation crowding out/”punished by rewards”
3. Low-information diet
   1. A tendency to temptation bundle
      1. Lots of consumption
   2. 3 months, holding off
      1. Benefits
         1. More mindfulness
            1. E.g. running
         2. Weening off the crutch
         3. Exploring perspectives of how to make the task more enjoyable
            1. Creativity - think about ways to tweak away from the initial design or to make it fun
            2. Captivate - intrinsic interest.
            3. Challenge - faster, better
            4. Compete
         4. Lots of ideas
      2. Challenges
         1. Missing high-quality long-form content
4. Regular self-reviews
   1. Joey
      1. Daily journaling:
         1. Event log
         2. Quantified self:
            1. Sleep
            2. Exercise
      2. End of week reflection:
         1. 3-4hrs
         2. Reflect on what happened during week
         3. Deliberate
      3. Monthly review
         1. Analyse weekly reviews
         2. Find themes
      4. Quarterly review
         1. Similar
      5. Annual review
         1. Stitch photos together into a music video
      6. Monday Nostalgia
         1. Choose a random video to re-watch
      7. Password protect your journals so you can be candid
   2. Jez
      1. Accountability group
      2. Google slide
      3. Feeling rushed
         1. Squeezing out
            1. Planning
            2. Intentionality / changing course
      4. Wants to do more review
         1. Increase 10m => 13m

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