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by conor- 540 days ago
What I've found helps me with hobby jumping or not completing tasks/practicing/etc. is to not talk about it. If I'm going to do a task or work on a hobby the act of saying I'm going to do something triggers the same dopamine reward as actually doing the thing. Instead I try to only talk about things that are already done in order to hold myself a little bit more accountable for actually working on stuff.
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I know I'm answering late, but WOW I didn't know this was an ADHD thing. I have noticed that if I talk about doing a thing, I don't do the thing, and the opposite is true. I thought this was just a ME thing. Mind blown. Thank you for sharing this!