I discovered in my 30s that I have ADHD. In reading this Im surprised at how many of these techniques I discovered out of trial, error, and necessity.

Most are great like headphones, writing things down, blocking out distractions, but the long boring task one fascinates me. For me it actually helps to turn on some video series I’m mildly interested in while doing that long boring task. In-office was so much harder because I could never try having Netflix open.

I’m a professor now and allow students particular freedoms along these lines, like wearing headphones or skipping lecture for the recorded one. I recently had a student who was able to participate more and keep up with the lecture much better by looking down and slowly maintaining a game on his phone.