The pivotal time in my life where I finally broke out of my executive dysfunction and brain fog involved going to an area on campus that was completely abandoned over the summer with no technology, just a paper and pencil and a math book I was trying to get through while my wife was working on her experiments a building away (with my phone).
There wasn’t even a clock there.
The first few days, I did a little work then slept (despite not being slee-deprived). Then I started adding some periodic exercise. Then I started bringing some self-help books and spent some time reading those as well. Eventually, I stopped napping and spent the whole time working, reading, or exercising.
It’s not like I never went back to being unproductive for stretches of time after that summer, but I was never as bad as I was before that.
The pivotal time in my life where I finally broke out of my executive dysfunction and brain fog involved going to an area on campus that was completely abandoned over the summer with no technology, just a paper and pencil and a math book I was trying to get through while my wife was working on her experiments a building away (with my phone).
There wasn’t even a clock there.
The first few days, I did a little work then slept (despite not being slee-deprived). Then I started adding some periodic exercise. Then I started bringing some self-help books and spent some time reading those as well. Eventually, I stopped napping and spent the whole time working, reading, or exercising.
It’s not like I never went back to being unproductive for stretches of time after that summer, but I was never as bad as I was before that.