I’ve found that breaking a daunting task down into concrete steps and eating away at it in baby steps helps me get it done. When I take Concerta, it helps me focus on the boring nitty-gritty bits, and it enables me to focus on activities like reading where you don’t have to do any planning. But the actual process planning/task breakup stays just as cognitively straining as before and becomes the new bottleneck to my productivity. Can this also be fixed with a pill, or does everyone have it this hard and is it a skill that you get better at over time?

  • stevo@lemm.eeEnglish
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    7 months ago

    i treat tasks as a quest. understanding that each quest ends with a new obstacle. this helps me. i still struggle with starting a task/quest. once i get going i can keep conquering quests/tasks.

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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      7 months ago

      No. Scrum is more than a label on common-sense problem breakdown. If it were, then it’d just be riding the coat-tails of established canon.

        • die444die@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          3 months ago

          Yeah “common sense” is normally just “things I believe with no justification so I can’t explain why I believe them.”