As someone who’s been struggling with executive dysfunction my entire life, I suspect this will be quite helpful.
I recently noticed a concept I called “walls”—I can keep going at a single task for hours as long as there’s a very tight feedback loop and I can always semi-unthinkingly intuit the next step—but the moment I have to make a decision or a plan (I’m really, really bad at both of those), I hit a wall and lose momentum and I start having trouble continuing.
A while back I was trying to program an evolution simulator in Godot, and it went really well until I decided it was time to refactor it to make the code more efficient—I even figured out the general idea of how I ought to refactor it—but I just… couldn’t make myself do it, and kept procrastinating… and eventually lost interest in the project. This is part of why I rarely do any programming!
As someone who’s been struggling with executive dysfunction my entire life, I suspect this will be quite helpful.
I recently noticed a concept I called “walls”—I can keep going at a single task for hours as long as there’s a very tight feedback loop and I can always semi-unthinkingly intuit the next step—but the moment I have to make a decision or a plan (I’m really, really bad at both of those), I hit a wall and lose momentum and I start having trouble continuing.
A while back I was trying to program an evolution simulator in Godot, and it went really well until I decided it was time to refactor it to make the code more efficient—I even figured out the general idea of how I ought to refactor it—but I just… couldn’t make myself do it, and kept procrastinating… and eventually lost interest in the project. This is part of why I rarely do any programming!