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These two hills: your Knowledge and Skills Hill, and the Performance Hill
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A rope bridge connects the hills.
- It is called an Intention Bridge,
- A motivation Bridge,
- or a Performance Bridge.
in ADHD, it’s rickety, and lots of slats are missing.
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The red bit of your brain is the rope bridge. We can do only 10 minutes on it, and then we need a 3 minutes break……So you step off the rope bridge.
To get started, first reassure yourself that you wont stay on that painful, scary bridge for more than 10 minutes –
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That red bit of brain doesn’t have a timer – it can’t stop – hyperfocus anyone? Sound familiar?
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An Egg Timer will solve your problems as it keeps time. It does what your red brain just cant do
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So now we have some info. Our red brain doesn’t do Time.
The sad news is that it can’t be trained to do Time. It’s a sort of “time dyslexia”.
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The good news: we do have an assistant – just like Glasses for short sight. And like glasses, we’ll always need them.