The Importance of Consistency in ADHD Work

ADHD brains are wired to actually favor inconsistency and we work best when we're inconsistent. So that's why you'll find so many people with ADHD in jobs that vary a lot hour by hour, they are creative and have a lot of spontaneity involved. For me, I've found that inconsistency is the key. It's big sprints, big intense periods of work and hyper-focus and creativity. But because those periods are so intense, they require an intense, extremely opposite period of rest and rejuvenation afterwards. And our world, our society, our culture just isn't used to seeing people in those extremes - it's almost like our society is deeply uncomfortable with that. As a

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