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As someone who fights with ADHD, I strive to intentionally single-task. It doesn't always work, but not having to keep several things in the forefront of my mind make it more possible to be productive.

Alarms and lists serve as my task manager, since my brain fails at it by default.

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Curious, are you able to have parallel thought streams?

I know two people who can, and they both have ADD. (But when I asked around, many others who have ADD can’t, though they are capable of fast context switching).

> Curious, are you able to have parallel thought streams? That's the problem. Parallel thought streams is where all my productivity issues come from.

My wife has to have something occupy one thought stream on a sensory channel in order to focus on the something she really wants to focus on on a separate channel. She usually runs three or four.

A friend knows how to fork and merge parallel streams at will, but can get bored. The mental intensity he can achieve when all of his streams merge is much greater than typical. He tells me he’d run podcasts at 4x or something while he works on other stuff.

Nope. My brain will context switch very quickly between threads sometimes, but that's often outside of my control.

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