Note that this doesn’t work for everyone. I find that gamifying your own tasks is a bit like trying to tickle yourself.
I love how simple, logical things that can’t be argued against just get tossed to the wayside.
My executive function is constantly the Gru Master Plan meme:
We like games, not homework.
So we turn the homework into a game.
Got bored thinking of how to do that and played 10 hours of an actual game instead.
I feel like his advice is really only applicable if the tasks are received pre-gamified, otherwise it’s just the same task with double the work:
Here’s a list of tasks
but it’s boring and tedious
use the content of the list to create a game with structure that ties individually completed tasks to generate automatic, immediate, output/result/gratification
Begin accomplishing gamified list tasks <---- (should be starting here)
Finish quickly due to gamification.
That whole approach ain’t gonna work on someone with ADHD. If it isn’t received pre-gamified, I’m not gonna do a bunch of extra work before I can start the actual work.
“The hack to being unable to start a task, is to start an additional, more complicated task” - No
“The best way to get an ADHD brain to quickly accomplish simple task lists is by having accomplishments provide immediate results/rewards” - Yes