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This is obvious - stress is motivating.

Give me a deadline in six months and I'll procrastinate for at least five of them, feeling terrible about it throughout. Give me an impossible deadline tomorrow and I become a productivity machine, with no time for anxious overthinking.

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This is also a result of different dopamine and other neurotransmitter function in folks with ADHD, not just anxious overthinking. With a deadline 6 months away, the dopamine reward to work on it doesn't work like in normal people. While, say doing something in a video game that triggers dopamine release reward which motivates action.

Interesting.

So giving you deadlines for impossible tasks every day is a good way to motivate you?

Yes, but it's not an invitation :)

;))

Only as long as it's a novelty, like many other approaches. If you know daily deadlines are BS, that's it. (Or you actually burn out)

I have to believe the deadlines are serious. It helps too if the task is interesting

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