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The Wall of Awful with Brendan Mahan (rebroadcast)
Hacking Your ADHD
Sometimes the a Dh D Wins
"Sometimes the a d h d is going to win. And if i don't take that into consideration, then it's going to make my problem solving a lot harder," says Brandon Lake. "It explains this phenomenon of lake. How come i don't want to mow the lawn? How come i'm struggling to start my taxes or lose weight?"
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And i'm sure you've heard me use the phrase, sometimes the a dh d wins before, because it's just such a freeing phrase. And i totally agree that using it as a reason, and not an excuse, is what gives it its power. If i said, sometimes the a d h d wins and left it at that, that's not great. But using that phrase is part of my problem solving. Gives me a handhold. I can acknowledge that i messed up and that i didn't have a lot of control over when i messed up, then i can use that to figure out what i need to differently next time. I'm always going to have a d h d, and i'm not always going to be able to compensate it for it. Well, sometimes the a d h d is going to win. And if i don't take that into consideration, then it's going to make my problem solving a lot harder. Anyways, back to brandon.
Speaker 1
You've got all these emotions that kind of fall in and form this wall. And that's one failure, right? Like that's one example, i didn't mow the lawn. But odon i get these s if i consistently don't mow the lawn, i get a lot more bricks. The walls get a lot bigger. If i consistently don't send the emal or don't make the phone call, or don't remember to do the dishes, or whatever the case may be, then i get a wall of awful for that task. And everybody has a wall of awful, not just folks with iht h d, cause we all have stuff that we fail at and struggle with, and that's ok. People with aght h d just have more of em, and they tend to be bigger, where it becomes something that rings pretty true for folks of 80 h is just it explains this phenomenon of lake. How come i don't want to mow the lawn? How come i'm struggling to start my taxes or lose weight, or whatever the case may be? It's because you have a wall of awful for that task. And and there might be more than one task hiding inside of that, right? Lake i was talking to my parent coach ing groups and talking about kids who had trouble leaving the house, right? Like, there's this big battle to leave the house. And i started playing with the idea that maybe the issue is not leaving the house, right? Like, what if the issue is your kid struggles to tie their shoes? And the deal is, in order to leave the house, your kid has to put their shoes on. And so that might be what's happening, but it looks like it's leaving the house. So some of this wall of awful stuff is really playing with fine tuning the s of the process, in figuring out where that process breaks downcause if you got to leave the house quick, maybe slip on shoes refined for your kid, and they can wear ther sneakers at a different point, i do't no, but those kinds of approaches can help navigate the wallo off a little more gently.
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