Jon Pienaar
- From How I Get Shit Done Despite Having ADD: Here’s What You Can Learn From my Experiences by Srinivas Rao
…fter a good surf session I can write for a few hours, and my best work emerges. As I’ve said before when you’re stuck mentally move physically. The other thing that happens when we exercise is that we get rid of excess energy and anxiety that…
- From How I Get Shit Done Despite Having ADD: Here’s What You Can Learn From my Experiences by Srinivas Rao
Distractions and interruptions have unique impacts on your brain. While both can shake up your short term memory cup, making you forget what just happened, interruptions are far worse than distractions. Distractions disrupt the connections between the middle frontal gyrus and the seeing brain (visual cortex), but they don’t obliterate it, so your brain still remembers whatever you were doing and you can come back to it easily. When you’re interrupted however switching tasks derails you, and this connection falls apart. Although distractions can reduce your productivity, if you do not tag and filter them, interruptions can be even more disruptive. — Srini Pillay
