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Chapter 1: What are the ADHD hacks that actually work for your brain?
Are you tired of ADHD advice that just doesn't work for your brain? Us too. Today we are talking ADHD hacks that are unhinged but that will actually work for your brain. Let's get into it.
Welcome to Late Bloomers where we are getting our lives together eventually.
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I really like the idea of this episode because too many times it's like, why don't you leave earlier? Why don't you just set an alarm? And it's like, and it must be really frustrating to hear, right?
It is so, it's like, do you not think I have tried that? Do you not think I have tried everything? I sometimes think it's just a little passive aggressive. It's people who don't believe the struggle. Like, surely you could just do this.
Well, someone that says just leave earlier is, I feel, inferring that you're doing it on purpose. Yeah. It's like, of course you're late. You left late.
Why don't you just stop being late? Yeah. Why don't you just stop being disorganized?
Okay. We've got 10 hacks today, which is quite exciting. And they actually work.
This is kind of a combination taken from how you get me to do things. Actually, I think this is probably all. Yeah. Okay. This is all how Rich gets me to live.
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Chapter 2: How can setting timers in seconds improve productivity?
You'll pick the easiest. If you've got three, you're going to pick the easiest.
The one that you perceive as the easiest, which might not actually be the easiest because you could be like, do you want to unload the dishwasher or come up with a new app idea for ADHD? I'll do B. It's not actually easiest. But what that looks like is, say if Rich was to come and say to me, do you want to unload the dishwasher? My immediate bodily reaction is like, oh no, shut down. Not now.
I know I need to do it because I'm in a partnership. Yeah, do it soon. It's not a pleasant experience for either of us. But when he comes up to me and says, babe, a couple of things I'd love to do as a team, one of us needs to fold all the laundry and one needs to unload the dishwasher. Because I want to avoid doing the laundry, I'll be like, I'll do the dishwasher.
You'll be like shotgun dishwasher.
And then suddenly I'm doing the dishwasher. I feel like I've avoided something. I've won. It's really strange, but it just giving me a choice seems to work so well. I'm almost embarrassed by how well it worked.
well it's you just touched on it then it feels like you've won you feel like like picture the scene you are unloading the dictionary dictionary dishwasher and you feel like you've got a victory yeah that is a win-win in my book
Like I've avoided, it happened the other day. I couldn't believe this, how lucky I was. We were cleaning the kitchen. You said, can we do clean the kitchen before bed? I was like, okay. And there was so many dirty plates and like we'd left it far too long. And I was like feeling overwhelmed, a bit scared, but like willing to do it. And you went, I'll do all of this.
Can you just tidy the table, the surfaces and the sofa? I was like, absolutely.
And put away all of the stuff that doesn't belong there, which was all of your like really random things.
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Chapter 3: What is the 'lesser of two evils' trick for task management?
No, it's okay. Oh, I understand. Cause autistic literal thinking has gone. It's fully proofed. Is that how you're understanding it?
Well, I didn't really deep it, but it was like, I just thought it was, it was full proof. Max, our editor, is laughing at me. That's okay.
That's okay. We can have a giggle. We love you. It's not foolproof.
Oh my God. Maybe I obviously have never seen it written down. I'm pretty sure I have written it foolproof before somewhere.
I love the fact that the word foolproof isn't even foolproof.
Well, it is, if you write it down properly.
Yeah, don't know about that. Anyway, it's full, F-O-O-L proof. All right. Because I am a fool. So yes, lockboxes. I also just think there's like a bigger hack in there. which is stop trying to like not lose things and always assume that you will. Always assume ADHD will win. You'll always lose the thing. So let's work from that basis.
Well, we won't go into it, but like lockboxes is one example. The other thing that we saw very early on said that you weren't really allowed really expensive wallets or really expensive sunglasses. It's a shame, but you're going to lose them. Yeah.
Unfortunately, I broke my own rule and bought a pair of like Charlie XCX sunglasses last summer because I was like, rat summer. It was a vibe. And then I lost them a couple of weeks ago on a train. Heartbreaking. But yeah, just go cheap on the things that you might lose. Also, do you need to carry a wallet? Do you need your ID? Do you need your passport? Do you need your driving licence?
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