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Dr. John Kruse

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915 total appearances

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Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

That doesn't mean micromanaging each minute, but it's having the essentials in place, having blocks of time that you know what you're going to do. Um, and having a task list in combination with that and ways of learning to prioritize and move things up or down. And again, with ADHD being interest driven, rather importance driven, you may have a task. I mean, you probably have 17 task lists.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

That doesn't mean micromanaging each minute, but it's having the essentials in place, having blocks of time that you know what you're going to do. Um, and having a task list in combination with that and ways of learning to prioritize and move things up or down. And again, with ADHD being interest driven, rather importance driven, you may have a task. I mean, you probably have 17 task lists.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

That doesn't mean micromanaging each minute, but it's having the essentials in place, having blocks of time that you know what you're going to do. Um, and having a task list in combination with that and ways of learning to prioritize and move things up or down. And again, with ADHD being interest driven, rather importance driven, you may have a task. I mean, you probably have 17 task lists.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

One's New York coffee, one's At the grocery store, one, it's having one consolidated list because if it's everywhere, then it's nowhere. And two is the simplest triaging or organizing approach is having the things that are both urgent and important. So to happen today, those get in the A category. The things that are important but aren't as urgent are the B category.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

One's New York coffee, one's At the grocery store, one, it's having one consolidated list because if it's everywhere, then it's nowhere. And two is the simplest triaging or organizing approach is having the things that are both urgent and important. So to happen today, those get in the A category. The things that are important but aren't as urgent are the B category.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

One's New York coffee, one's At the grocery store, one, it's having one consolidated list because if it's everywhere, then it's nowhere. And two is the simplest triaging or organizing approach is having the things that are both urgent and important. So to happen today, those get in the A category. The things that are important but aren't as urgent are the B category.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

And all the other things are the C. And one of the temptations that people with ADHD have is, oh, I need to be productive. you know, it's fun to go buy shoelaces and that's on my list. So I'll go to buy shoelaces because then I can cross something off my list, but I didn't move the car. I didn't do my taxes. I haven't done my homework and all the important things remain undone.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

And all the other things are the C. And one of the temptations that people with ADHD have is, oh, I need to be productive. you know, it's fun to go buy shoelaces and that's on my list. So I'll go to buy shoelaces because then I can cross something off my list, but I didn't move the car. I didn't do my taxes. I haven't done my homework and all the important things remain undone.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

And all the other things are the C. And one of the temptations that people with ADHD have is, oh, I need to be productive. you know, it's fun to go buy shoelaces and that's on my list. So I'll go to buy shoelaces because then I can cross something off my list, but I didn't move the car. I didn't do my taxes. I haven't done my homework and all the important things remain undone.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

So it's a system for getting done what's really needed to be done. And, you know, eventually if, if, your shoes don't work, the shoelaces will move up to that A category, but for most people they're not really there and it's not a good use of your time to do them first. And there's much more to it.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

So it's a system for getting done what's really needed to be done. And, you know, eventually if, if, your shoes don't work, the shoelaces will move up to that A category, but for most people they're not really there and it's not a good use of your time to do them first. And there's much more to it.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

So it's a system for getting done what's really needed to be done. And, you know, eventually if, if, your shoes don't work, the shoelaces will move up to that A category, but for most people they're not really there and it's not a good use of your time to do them first. And there's much more to it.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

So the CBT approach can work with decreasing procrastination, it can help with structuring your own workspace given that you probably have much more trouble doing that and not doing it spontaneously. It's how to eliminate distractions and modules on even extending your concentration time. So the answer with the video games, there is one product that's actually been FDA approved for use in ADHD.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

So the CBT approach can work with decreasing procrastination, it can help with structuring your own workspace given that you probably have much more trouble doing that and not doing it spontaneously. It's how to eliminate distractions and modules on even extending your concentration time. So the answer with the video games, there is one product that's actually been FDA approved for use in ADHD.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

So the CBT approach can work with decreasing procrastination, it can help with structuring your own workspace given that you probably have much more trouble doing that and not doing it spontaneously. It's how to eliminate distractions and modules on even extending your concentration time. So the answer with the video games, there is one product that's actually been FDA approved for use in ADHD.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

And the really important thing to remember there is the FDA's system for addressing medications is much more rigorous, much more thorough. You have to demonstrate it really works and does something When the FDA approves devices, basically they're saying it's not going to kill anyone, it might help.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

And the really important thing to remember there is the FDA's system for addressing medications is much more rigorous, much more thorough. You have to demonstrate it really works and does something When the FDA approves devices, basically they're saying it's not going to kill anyone, it might help.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

And the really important thing to remember there is the FDA's system for addressing medications is much more rigorous, much more thorough. You have to demonstrate it really works and does something When the FDA approves devices, basically they're saying it's not going to kill anyone, it might help.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

I mean, it might help tremendously, but having the FDA imprimatur for that doesn't guarantee that or mean that at all.

Huberman Lab
Improve Focus with Behavioral Tools & Medication for ADHD | Dr. John Kruse

I mean, it might help tremendously, but having the FDA imprimatur for that doesn't guarantee that or mean that at all.