William Curb

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2,678 appearances 17 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 14 Aug

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Hacking Your ADHD · Scaffolding the ADHD Brain: How Habits Fail and Systems May Save Us · 29 May 2026 podcast

Like setting up a key basket by your front door to drop your keys into right when you walk in. matched

you want to make that step as effortless as possible by removing any friction points. matched

If you have a three or four step process in putting away your keys, that's going to be three or four steps where you can inadvertently get distracted by something else. matched

But if you just have matched

Drop keys and basket. matched

Nothing else goes in the basket. matched

Well, you're making it far more likely that you'll be able to follow through with your original intentions of always putting away your keys. matched

And of course we can set up our systems to tackle more complex problems. matched

With the caveat here that I just mentioned above. matched

The more complexity we add, the more spots for failure we introduce. matched

Let's take something like creating an end-of-day shutdown workflow to move us out of work mode and into the rest of our day. matched

Now this is where something like a phone alarm matched

Would seem like a great way to remind us that it's time to start getting ready to close out. matched

However, you and I both know how easy it is to ignore a phone alarm when it goes off, hits news, and just keep hyperfocusing on whatever it is we're working on. matched

To counteract this, we want to create a tightly coupled system. matched

where the trigger and the action are physically linked. matched

Instead of an alarm on our phone right next to us, we set up an alarm across the room that we physically have to get up and turn off. matched

This interrupts whatever we're doing to force us into the next stage, or at least endure the alarm until we actually get up. matched

By standing up and walking, you are physically breaking the circuit of the desk environment. matched

You have moved your body into a new space, which makes it infinitely easier for an ADHD brain to transition into a new task. matched

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