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by gfourfour 729 days ago
Adderall is great at making me produce, but horrible at true “focus.” It makes everything other than pure output feel like a waste of time. In the long run, I found this to be a pretty detrimental way to operate. Good for getting something across the finish line but since I’ve stopped taking it I’ve been able to go a lot deeper into stuff and plug away at long term projects rather than just checking off as many “tasks” as possible.
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The people I have worked with on Adderall were just annoying and fucked shit up constantly. Bonus points working with them after they burn out.
Take smaller doses when you want to to do deep work
I switched to concerta and it works much better. Lowering my dose of adderall just made it less effective.
Complete opposite so ymmv