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ADHD for Smart Ass Women with Tracy Otsuka

EP. 388: How to Get Your Brain Online

June 10 · 31 min · Season 7 · Episode 388 · 22.4 MB
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You know what to do. So why can't you make yourself do it? If you have ever stared at one small task and quietly wondered what is wrong with you, I want to offer a different possibility.

Nothing is wrong with you. Your brain already made a prediction about how that task was going to feel before you ever started, and a lot of the time you are not avoiding the task at all. You are avoiding that prediction. 

The email isn't an email anymore. It's criticism. 

The budget isn't a budget. It's shame. 

Once the task stops being the task, no amount of yelling at yourself is going to move you.

In this episode I talk about why the same woman who can't answer an email can build a company, why your brain reaches for Instagram over the thing that actually matters, and the practical ways to break the spell: changing your visual field, moving your body, getting curious, and becoming a detective about what your brain thinks the task really means.

If you have ever called yourself lazy for avoiding something you genuinely wanted to do, this one is for you. The problem was never willpower. It was the prediction.


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