#073: In this episode, I share my personal journey of struggling with task avoidance and procrastination as someone with ADHD. I discuss how I overcame the fear of failure and high anxiety levels by finding inspiration and implementing strategies. I highlight the importance of taking action and focusing on progress rather than perfection. Throughout the episode, I share quotes from influential figures and personal experiences that have helped me on my path. Enjoy!
ADHD POWER LINKS
Timestamps
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:02:55) Finding Inspiration
(00:05:36) Taking Action
(00:07:53) Overcoming Fear of Failure
(00:09:57) Improving Language Skills
(00:13:48) Embracing Challenges
(00:18:01) Breaking Tasks Down
(00:21:25) Getting Good Enough
(00:25:17) Taking Action: Quit Talking and Begin Doing
(00:31:28) Stop Procrastinating
(00:39:55) Conclusion
#073: In this episode, I share my personal journey of struggling with task avoidance and procrastination as someone with ADHD. I discuss how I overcame the fear of failure and high anxiety levels by finding inspiration and implementing strategies. I highlight the importance of taking action and focusing on progress rather than perfection. Throughout the episode, I share quotes from influential figures and personal experiences that have helped me on my path. Enjoy!
ADHD POWER LINKS
Timestamps
(00:00:00) Introduction
(00:02:55) Finding Inspiration
(00:05:36) Taking Action
(00:07:53) Overcoming Fear of Failure
(00:09:57) Improving Language Skills
(00:13:48) Embracing Challenges
(00:18:01) Breaking Tasks Down
(00:21:25) Getting Good Enough
(00:25:17) Taking Action: Quit Talking and Begin Doing
(00:31:28) Stop Procrastinating
(00:39:55) Conclusion
The most successful ADHDers in the world see ADHD as a superpower. This podcast, adhd Power, is my attempt to document the many failures and lessons I've learned on my journey of living a high performance life with ADHD. My hope is that you use these lessons to increase your productivity and maybe someday soon, turn your ADHD into a valuable asset in your life. Please share and enjoy. So welcome ADHD high performers to a new episode of the ADHD Power podcast. In today's episode, I want to share with you six quotes that helped me overcome ADHD procrastination. As you know, many of us with ADHD, we struggle a little bit with task avoidance or procrastination, and inside this episode I want to address this challenge. But first let's get started with a quick story in regards to my journey with ADHD and procrastination. So, as someone who has battled chronic procrastination, I fully understand the challenges it presents, and I can tell you guys, my ADHD journey wasn't easy. I failed exams in high school and university as a freshman. I often felt overwhelmed and stressed, and I grappled with the fear, failure and high anxiety levels. However, I began to develop skills that now empower me to complete an internship in the US as the executive project manager to the COO of a large Swiss corporation. I run ADHD coaching business, helping over 20 individuals with ADHD in establishing consistent productivity, and I pursue a master's degree in general management at an elite uni in Switzerland. And now I would like to share with you a little bit what happened on that journey how I overcome procrastination, task avoidance, overwhelm, distress, this fear, failure, how I could address that and how I could overcome that. And I want to share with you six quotes that inspired me on my journey. All right, six quotes basically, that have been instrumental in my journey to overcome procrastination. And the first one is from Chris Williamson. He, by the way, has a great podcast called Modern Wisdom. I highly enjoy it and maybe that's also interesting to you. And he said something like, or he wrote perfectionism is procrastination masquerading as quality control. So the point here is, yeah, this perfect. Many of us with ADHD, I would say we struggle a little bit with perfectionism. We have this perfectionistic tendencies that we want to try the perfect thing, but then in the end we are not starting at all because we have this perfect, let's say, imagination in our mind, like I want to do the perfect thing, and that is such a big burn on our shoulder that we maybe don't start not at all.
Speaker 1:In regards to this topic of perfectionism, I want to share a short share with you, a quick story from my podcast journey. So, basically, in 2019, I started my first I call it side hustle or side project and I basically wanted to use my ADHD, creativity, my entrepreneurial spirit, to add value to this planet. So I decided first to start a blog, but then, later, I changed my mind and I decided to start a podcast because I thought that makes a little bit more sense, a fits a little bit better with my personality, yeah, so then I watched a video course from online marketing expert Pat Flynn on how to build a WordPress website because, as you know, when you want to have a podcast, you can also create your own podcast website. And that's what I basically did in that time, and I spent almost and please listen now half a year working my first podcast website. You can also check it out. It's called catch the Sennethcom Still online. It's a German podcast, by the way, or German website and I was working almost I get more than a half year on this website.
Speaker 1:Of course, I had some interruptions because at that time I was doing crazy A lot of credit points at university 42 credit points. That was, I guess, my third semester when I really started to harness my potential and it worked well. And yeah, I was procrastinating on that project a little bit because my main focus was in that time university, but still I procrastinated and I wanted to do the perfect website. Perfect website, wonderful graphics, that every little thing looks nice but I haven't done any progress on actually recording the episodes, podcast episodes and I was doing those perfectsynistic things or trying to do the perfect website until my wonderful girlfriend shared something game-changing with me. She shared with me something like you should not focus on building the perfect website, you should start to practice recording episodes, because that will help other people and make your podcast successful. And I'm so, so grateful that she shared that with me, because soon after I finished my website and on April 11th 2020, I published my first three episodes. Yeah, I did my launch podcast launch and I immediately launched my first three episodes two interviews and one intro. I'm quite interesting. So I had this.
Speaker 1:I wanted to do the perfect website and that was not helping me at all with actually recording the episodes the actual product I'm delivering to the listener and I realized that how important it is, because when recording my first solo episode that was my intro I realized how hard it is to simply press record and speak something that makes sense, basically yeah. And in the beginning, yeah, really, I cut out every single mispronunciation, but that helped me back from making progress in my speaking skills. I was so afraid to say something stupid. What people will Think about me I guess we call it imposter syndrome. I'm not 100% sure, but basically I was scared of what will other people think if I say something stupid, and so on. I had that in my mind and that was, to a certain degree, limiting myself and I had this perfect in its extendances. So what have I changed over time? Why I'm now able to record longer podcast episodes without or with less fear of Saying something stupid, etc.
Speaker 1:The first thing is simply aiming for 70% instead of 100% and Internalizing the principle of taking imperfect actions. That's what I learned from a mentor of mine. He's doing a lot of imperfect actions in his business, but he moves forward, he learns, he grows, yeah. And also, I see every single, every new episode like this one here as an opportunity to get 1% better. I always see it as an opportunity to grow and this became especially important when I started my first podcast, catch the center, because in the beginning obviously nobody cared. I had only few, few listeners, few 100 podcast streams or episode streams, downloads. Not a lot of people cared for my podcast and Especially in that time I told myself, hey, or that's what I started to do over time. Each episode is an opportunity to learn, to get better in regards to recording podcast episodes. Yeah, and Now I would say after now I guess over 150 published episodes on my former podcast, catch the Senate, and my new podcast, adhd power.
Speaker 1:I can say aiming for 70% was, I would say, the best decision to make as an ADHD year because, interestingly, I did my best work, only aiming for good enough and not Perfection, and I'm not saying and I really please understand me correct here I'm a big Support of putting in a lot of work when it comes to certain projects to make something exceptionally good. Yeah, I'm a huge supporter of that and I personally follow that as an entrepreneur. I put a lot of hours. I were crazy long hours. I love doing that, but Once I started to remove saying I want to do the perfect thing and instead saying I want to aim for 70, 80% Imperfect actions.
Speaker 1:I'm removed this big, big burden on my shoulders. I could do better progress and I would say the results were way better than I would say if I told myself to do the perfect thing. And I? I actually Recently heard an example I'm not sure if it was of Ali Abdul Please correct me if I'm wrong but something like instead of saying I want to write a bestseller in regards to the example of writing a book, your first book, whatever, or in general, writing a book, instead of saying writing a bestseller, you say I simply want to write a book. I don't care it will become a best seller or not, I simply write a book. That's the goal and that removes a little bit the pressure, and maybe that can help you as well and you can apply to your different projects in your life where we currently struggle a little bit with perfect tenancy.
Speaker 1:Now the question is why that helped me so much, aiming for 70% to a part, to a certain degree. I already answered that, but basically I was not procrastinating any more recording an episode because now I had this mindset of I simply want to do progress and that helped me to publish one or more episodes consistently every single week for now almost three years. I would say now Over. I'm not. My streak is currently, I guess, maybe 130 episodes in a row every single week. I'm not quite sure I shared it in the previous episodes, it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1:Basically what I'm saying is I started to become successful and also I have a lesser fear of saying something stupid in an episode, because nowadays also currently, for example, as you know, maybe you have seen in the beginning, when I started this podcast, it first was a German podcast ADHD Power. It was called RDS Power on German. Adhd simply means RDS on German and then I decided, hey, I want to help even more people and to open that podcast to also English speaking people, and of course, that was also a change for myself, to actually start to improve my English, to make it better, and I hope you can hear it. Maybe it improved a little bit, maybe not, you can decide by yourself but the point is and that was also something and I would say I transitioned to a new language, not my, my native language basically, and of course sometimes I have maybe some sentences that doesn't make so much sense for some people who are native speaker, and that's fine, but I try to improve and get better at it once I really, I would say, come to a certain degree that my English is pretty, pretty decent. That's the goal.
Speaker 1:Yeah, therefore, I'm also currently by the way quick side note here trying always when I hear a new word on English. In English like, for example, when I listen to a podcast, I heard the word abundance and I heard that so many times and intuitively I know a little bit what it could mean, but I wasn't sure and then I translated it and then I put that into my Evernote. I have like a main note where I always put in a new word and then I transferred that to Anki and Anki is a note. It's basically like a for, for for learning new content with active recall. You basically have cards. In front of the card is written like the German word and then in the back of the cards it's written the English word, and like that you can really fast learn new words. And basically that's what I'm doing every day putting one word inside Anki and learning a new word, and like that I want to improve my English overall. Alright, long story short, that was my podcast attorney.
Speaker 1:The main takeaway is really aiming for 70, 80% instead of 100%, aiming for good enough, and maybe that can help you to produce your best results once again. That was the first quote, or, referring to the first quote, perfect cynicism is procrastination masquerading as quality control, and I wanted to share with you some insights in regards to perfect cynicism how you can overcome that next quote is from David Goggins, and some of you guys know him, by the way. Now I know it for 100%. Sure, he has also ADHD. I watched some podcasts and some podcast interviews with him and of him. For example, the interview with Chris Williamson was quite interesting and he also shared that he was, I guess, diagnosed as a child with ADHD and he said something like a road you are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your true potential. Yeah, of course, if we take into account, david Goggins is quite interesting personality. He is, I guess, a retired Navy SEAL ultra maraton runner, really, really interesting guy and something. What he simply said in this quote is okay, this, this comfortable and soft, that can make us a little bit. Yeah, we will never realize our true potential if you don't push a little bit the boundaries.
Speaker 1:That's, I guess, the main thing here and now, coming back to the topic of ADHD, how that is connected with it, I would say the way I personally overcome ADHD procrastination is to do something harder than the hard thing that I'm putting off. Yeah, so something to do that is not comfortable, that is basically not soft, not as David Goggins said it and I give you some examples how I personally apply that to my life or some hard activities. That could be an intense leg workout, it could be a morning cold shower, it could be climbing six flights of stairs in my building where I'm currently living in Salt Lake City. You get the chest basically doing something harder. But it could also be like brushing your teeth instead with the right hand, you brush it, brush your teeth with the left hand. You're constantly challenging your brain and doing something harder than the hard thing that you're putting off and maybe that can help you then later on, if you have finished this other hard thing, to go back to the main hard thing. Yeah, it's like, hey, I'm procrastinating on a project and then you go to take a cold shower and you come back to it and you see if it works and now you can tackle it. Yeah, that's maybe something that can help you and also not only I am saying that, also interesting person. I heard it also once from Andrew Huberman. He got into you and it was quite interesting and he also talked a little bit about this this thing of simply doing something harder than the hard thing that we are putting off, and maybe that can help you as well.
Speaker 1:And also, when it comes to the topic of doing hard things in life, that helped me tremendously on my ADHD journey because I realized do hard things if you want an easy life. As someone with ADHD, that's what I learned on my journey I would say and I can tell you many things are hard on this planet. Getting educated is hard. Learning new skills is hard. Exercising regularly is hard. Eating healthy is hard. Sleeping at the same time every day is hard. Sleeping seeing seeing your friends having fun and going out is hard. But the truth is that these things are only hard during the moment, because what's the alternative? I bet you have family members or friends who also have hard lives.
Speaker 1:Now the question what makes your life hard? A dead-end job, bad health, no free time, feeling caged by responsibility? I would say, ultimately, it's a lack of freedom that makes a hard life. To obtain freedom, we must do the other hard things. We must sweat, study, focus, sacrifice and strive for betterment every single day. And yes, that will always stay hard, obviously, or it can stay hard, but the real price is an easy life and that makes it worth it. Yeah, so if you run into challenges and think it's too hard, remember why you do what you do. You might be doing hard things, but you do it because you don't want to have a hard life. Yeah, you might be doing hard things, but you do it because you don't want to have a hard life. Having the freedom to do what you want and being comfortable doesn't come easy. We must work hard for that privilege every single day, and we will never reach an end state where our lives will always be easy. It's something we keep working for day in and day out, but it's all worth it. Yeah. So that's, by the way, a quick. I was reading that from my recent Instagram post and I really think if you want to have basically an easy life, you do the hard things. And I believe also or at least that's what helped me it's also definitely possible with ADHD, because we don't need to do immediately the big hard things. We can start with smaller hard things. That's also.
Speaker 1:I recently listened to an interesting podcast with Jordan Peterson and Chris Williamson and they talked about if you so. The key takeaway was like okay, if you have a huge challenge in front of you, like many of us with ADHD, we are one of the people with great gifts, but we can also have challenges. If you have a big challenge, break it down into its easiest possible form. Break it down that simply, you can't fail. Or you simply think, yes, that's what I can do, and that simply could mean, okay, my goal is because I have this entrepreneurial spirit, I'm highly creative, I have this gift of imagination. I want to start my own business.
Speaker 1:What is the first step I could do? The first step that is so easy that I can't miss, and it could be like simply going on on a website to secure your domain for your website. That's it. That's your first step. Or one step to go one step before thinking, brainstorming 15 minutes about the name of your company. You make it so easy that you can't miss it. It's like with working out. Instead of saying I go five times a week training for 90 minutes, I will simply say, hey, I go twice for only five minutes, but I think that's doable, that's achievable, that's what I can do, what I basically can stick to it or commit to it. You make it easy that you can miss.
Speaker 1:You break it down, and for some people, make it easy is bigger than for other people. For some people, maybe, when it comes to let's do the next sample what I heard in the podcast, like cleaning up your room, maybe the first step you want to do is simply taking out the vacarmer and putting it into your room. That's the first step and then you stop. But you have made a little small step towards mastery. That's the point. We break it down, that it is so easy that we can't not do it. Basically, that's also what I personally love, this principle. I can tell you, if you do that over and over again, you break things down they are way more approachable.
Speaker 1:The likelihood that you start with something is bigger, because it's like saying I will just do five minutes something. You make it easy. Most likely, if you have finished five minutes, you will continue with it because you tell yourself, hey, actually I did five minutes, I can do more. It's like with working out, realizing okay, after five minutes you can actually do more, but I would say, especially in the beginning, it's so crucial that we work a little bit on our consistency. Consistency beats intensity. First, we want a consistency. We stick to the plan over an extended period of time and once we've mastered that, we can work more on the intensity.
Speaker 1:The point is, break it simply down into his easiest form and maybe that can help you to get started with something. That's basically it. That was simply the second quote from David Goggins. You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft that you will die without ever realizing your true potential. And once again, if you want to have an easy life, do the hard things and how you can do the hard things. Basically break things down into really, really small steps. Challenge yourself yeah, that's something. And if you have something hard in front of you, simply do a harder thing and then come back to the main hard thing. Maybe then that can help you a little bit. The next quote is from Alex Ramosy. He said you can get good enough at almost anything in 20 hours of focused effort. The problem is most people spend years delaying the first hour. So quick story in regards to this thing of delaying the first hours.
Speaker 1:When I started my first podcast catch the senate. Once again, I need to create this WordPress website. But what, interestingly? What I realized? To learn the basics of creating a WordPress website, that's basically this website builder. You can learn that in a short amount of time and 20 hours, or more, than enough to learn the basics. But the point is most of us be procrastinating simply doing the first hour. In my case it was procrastinating, for example, recording the first podcast episode because I was scared a little bit of it. So the first and, interestingly, on the first 20 hours of producing podcast episodes, I learned so much. I learned, okay, where to record that in all this city, audacity, how to edit that. Then how to write a description, the caption, creating a blog post for my website, yeah, then publishing it, social media posts. But on the other hand, and more importantly, the script, how to script a podcast episode, the research aspect, research topic, insert it, like, finding blog posts that I can use for my episode as a source, quotes, etc. I learned so much in the first 20 hours of starting to produce podcast episodes.
Speaker 1:Now the point is, most of us, we struggle with this first hour. Like Alex from Mosey said, the problem is most people spend years delaying the first hour. And here I have a quick tip for you maybe that can help you from Ali Abdal Ali Abdal, by the way, if you don't know him, he's a productivity YouTuber, really interesting. He's bringing out his first book, by the way, and you're also referring to that. What I said before he said, I guess that instead of writing a bestseller, you write simply a book, and Ali Abdal has a rule called the five minute rule, and he wrote in a Twitter post something like starting something is the hardest part.
Speaker 1:I trick myself into starting an activity. I tell myself that I can stop after five minutes if I want to. Even five minutes is better than not starting at all, but once I start, I rarely stop. That's again the principle of you make it so easy that you can fail, basically, and you can call that the five minute rule. Like Ali Abdal, you can always remind yourself when you want to start with something. I make it. I only do five minutes, I only work out five minutes. I only make create a PowerPoint presentation or work on it for five minutes, and then you decide do I want to continue or not Most likely, I can tell you, or at least that's what happens in my case.
Speaker 1:I want to continue because I tell myself now, extra, you prepared, for example, when it comes to recording an episode, I extra prepared my podcast equipment, so now you want to continue with it. Yeah, you want to actually record the episode. That's the point here. So that's the five minute rule of all the updull. Maybe that can help you as well. Again, that was referring to the quote of Alex Samosy. You can get good enough at almost anything in 20 hours of focused effort.
Speaker 1:The problem is most people spend years delaying the first hour, so don't delay the first hour.
Speaker 1:Then next quote is from Walt Disney. Everybody knows Walt Disney and, by the way, he also had ADHD. He said or wrote, the way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. Now, sharing what we want to do with other people is kind of a double-edged sword. Communicating our goals with others can be useful in adding social accountability and it can help you get started on things because you want to keep your word basically. However, it can also add too much pressure and, as a result, we may not start at all.
Speaker 1:So point is find what works for you in the end, but personally, I like to follow certain rules in my life when it comes to sharing knowledge about my own project, about my business, podcasts and so on with other people. And one simple rule and maybe that inspires you to also create your own rule is this one here I prefer to share information about an interview for my podcast only after I have completed the recording, the actual recording. This is because there is always a chance that the interviewee, that the person I will interview, may not be able to attend, and if I had already shared information with everybody that I will interview this person and I will publish soon the episode, it would make me look unprofessional, and I guess that's what. I'm not 100% sure where I heard it. I guess it was actually from Kim Kardashian, kind of interesting. She said something similar like that don't share. Or I guess it was like if something didn't happen, don't share it with other people, only share it when you did it, and that really helped me on my journey Only share with somebody that you have into it, xyz person, once you have recorded the actual episode.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so, coming back to the main quote of Walt Disney, the way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. I would say that's definitely an important thing to, yeah, simply ask ourself does it make sense to share everybody, with everybody, my goals? Yeah, doesn't make sense. Does it help me? Doesn't help me. That's maybe what something you can. For example, if it works for you because it adds a little bit social accountability, great. It's like.
Speaker 1:I remember a story from an entrepreneur I guess it was novel Robbie Kahn, interesting guy by the way. He said when he wanted to become an entrepreneur he shared it, I guess, with some people that he wants to become an entrepreneur and it doesn't happen immediately and obviously then people start to ask why you are not an entrepreneur. And that's again the same thing. So always be careful if you share something with somebody and ask yourself does it help me, is it good for accountability reasons? If yes, then do it absolutely. But if it adds too much pressure on your shoulders, then maybe question that and ask yourself doesn't make sense in my case. All right, that was the quote. The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. Of Walt Disney, who also had ADHD, as, of course, many wonderful, successful people. Next quote is from Jordan Belford the only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it. So quick story again here. Maybe I have shared that in a previous episode.
Speaker 1:For years I struggled with a limiting belief that I'm not good at math. I told myself, fundamentally, I'm not good at math, I'm not a born mathematician, and I always used to tell myself, yeah, that over and over again. But this was, I realized, but this was not doing me any good as I was limiting myself by identifying with the identity of someone who is not good at math. Once I stopped telling this story to myself and started telling myself that I can learn math and become better at it, I began to thrive and, as a result, I am now doing my master's degree in general management at an elite uni and I'm no longer struggling with it. I'm not telling that, by the way, to Bragg or Schoff, not at all. I'm simply telling you.
Speaker 1:It really, really helped me to establish, cultivate, a growth mindset, to say, okay, currently I have this challenge, but I'm able to learn and get better at it. I currently don't know that yet, the little word yet that makes a difference. Currently, maybe I'm not an expert in mathematics but I'm able to get better at it. And I realized, okay, maybe I need to put in a little bit more work than others to become decent at math. And, interestingly, once I put in a little bit more work and I started to stop speaking over myself those limiting words, it changed. Yeah, and nowadays I'm pretty decent at math because obviously in my master's degree you need to do some calculations, obviously it's in a business, in a general management degree, and of course, by no means I would consider myself as the mathematician expert. Not at all. That's not what I'm saying. But for myself, I could really improve my skills by simply stop speaking over myself certain things and that, I guess, is something I repeat myself over and over again.
Speaker 1:But I believe this is so a crucial thing and I share that in many episodes before in this podcast like our identity is what we speak over ourselves is so, so crucial. It's like if we tell ourselves like I'm a procrastinator, you already internalize this identity, you identify with that and this kind of course become limiting. But if we start stop saying certain things and the point why I'm saying that basically is when we, once we believe in a certain aspect of our identity, we are more likely to act in alignment to that identity. Like in case I would think that I'm not good at. If I would speak over myself, I'm a procrastinator. The likelihood that I procrastinate is way higher than I would, on the other hand, say, hey, I currently have this challenge, but what can I do to get become better at it and to stop procrastinating? That's a little bit of point, and that's not only what I'm saying. That's also written in the book Atomic Habits of James Clear, and he was quoting there, or no, he was referring there to some studies. Basically that this is yeah, once we believe we can't do a certain thing, the likelihood that we actually can't do it or will not do it is way higher. So maybe that resonates a little bit with you and can help you as well.
Speaker 1:All right, and in regards to that, when it comes to identity, like in my case, math I was struggling with math. Then I started to become better at it. I also understood that although I can't control the world around me, I can't control how I respond to it and, simply put, what I focus on grows. That simply means that, like, if I focus on something like in my case it was I'm Not good at math, I focus on that. It starts to grow. I've become worse at it, you know, and that's also I remember that's a quote of Andrew Huberman, something similar like basically, what you focus on, that grows, and he said something similar like that and that's kind of interesting because if we, for example, would all the time focus on negative things in our, in our lives, the likelihood that our overall well-being maybe suffers a little bit is way higher.
Speaker 1:I would say it depends on what we focus on our lives. That's, for example, also the reason why I personally don't read news. I stopped doing that, I don't know, maybe four years ago, I don't know anymore, but a long time ago I stopped reading the news completely and, interestingly, I'm way better. Yeah, I'm feeling so good now and and interestingly, maybe now you will maybe say, okay, how you can be up to date and everything, what I realized by reading books, long-form texts and way more up to date, because I understand why people behave in a certain way, why Certain things are happening on this planet, and that's kind of interesting, simply by reading books, you know. And I Would also say, like, sometimes the argument is then like are you not feeling sorry for certain things on this planet and 100% From the bottom of my heart, I feel sorry for certain things that are happening on this planet.
Speaker 1:But if I would consume all day negative news, like, for example, if I would read every single day that a car accident happened, from the bottom of my heart I feel really sorry that this happened to this person, but Now I can't change nothing. That's the first thing. It already happened. And secondly, if I would only consume that things my life, I would feel not good. Basically, yeah, it would. I wouldn't feel good. And that's also, and also that's connected with the sensitivity I would say we ADHD is, we have the tendency to be more sensitive people. Yeah, you know, on average, I would say. Some people also say ADHD simply means sensitivities. So, and to maybe to a certain degree, it's true, but I always be careful in regards again to that identity thing.
Speaker 1:Point is, and and if I know I'm more sensitive, yeah, I'm more, let's say, reactive on Certain things that I read then I need to make sure that I take care on what I consume. And news is definitely not good for me. I'm not feeling good. Therefore, I like to read long-form text books. I like to listen to long-form podcasts like, for example, of Chris Williams and Stephen Bartlett diary of a CEO, jordan Peterson podcast, andrew Huberman podcast, etc. Long-form content, and the cool thing is then also, I'm doing one thing at a time, strengthening my concentration while at the same time learning, and I'm feeling way better. Basically, that's the point. Yeah, may key takeaway from that. What I just said is what I focus on grows. If I focus on positive things, most likely my life will be more positive. Vice versa as well.
Speaker 1:All right, guys, that was again coming back to the main point. I struggled a little bit with math and so on. Quote was here the only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it of Jordan Belford. All right, let's move to the last quote. Stop researching every aspect of it and reading all about it and debating the pros and cons of it. Start doing it. Point here is you can.
Speaker 1:What I learned on my journey is as an entrepreneur, as a podcaster, as a student, etc. You learn so, so much if you start doing the actual things, if we read about it, for example. Let's do an example. If I, in that time when I started my first podcast. I already. Obviously I watched some YouTube videos about podcasting a lot of research but the actual details and nuances I learned Doing it. Yeah, walking the talk, walk the talk. Basically. Then I learned so much like when it comes to interviews, for example, how to structure and into you yeah, which is a what is a good intro question? How can I structure the main questions? How, what is a good outro of the podcast? Those things I learned actually doing the thing and that's similar like I remember this one example, alex from Ozier, I guess he shared something like that. Like you can learn, you can read thousand books on sales, but if you had never a sales call, most likely you don't know how to sell. And and translated to my case, for example, as a podcaster, I learned tremendous amount recording the first episodes. Yeah, I learned the details, what matters, what is important when recording an episode, and that helped me to get become a little bit better. I'm not saying that I'm good, I'm simply saying that helped me to become a little bit better than before. Yeah, actually doing the thing, because we learn so so much the different aspects of it and maybe that can help you as well when it comes, for example, to your podcast, to your journey as an entrepreneur, as a working professional, whatever yeah, to actually doing the things. And also, I always like to have in my mind this example of if somebody's teaching something yeah, in the theory, and somebody's teaching the same topic, but actually walk the talk, I always have the feeling that the second person can help me way better in the end, because this person knows Details and nuances that actually are crucial for the success in a certain field. Yeah, alright, guys, that was simply it.
Speaker 1:Now let's do a quick rundown of today's episode. So the first Quote was of Chris Williamson. I talked about perfectionism. Key takeaway there aim for 80, 70% instead of 100%. Then we shared I shared with you a quote from ADHD or David Goggins. Key takeaway there is if you want to have an easy life, do the hard things. Then I shared with you a quote from Alex, from Mosey, and there the most important thing I would say is to get yourself started, to don't procrastinate on the first hour doing something. Start with the five-minute rule, do five minutes something and then decide if you want to continue. Then we covered a quote from Walt Disney about sharing with other people what we are doing. And the point is, I would say have some rules in your life. Or that's a key takeaway have some rules in your life when you share something and when not. Then a quote from Jordan Belfort Now the story we keep telling ourselves why we can't do something and there I would say the main takeaway is really Establish cultivated growth mindset.
Speaker 1:Be careful what you speak over yourself with, what identity you start identify. Is it a good identity that serves you or is it a negative one that makes your life miserable or not good? And lastly, the quote of chocolate Wellington Point here is you can do, you can read, you can watch thousand podcast episodes, you. But you actually learn the most if you do it, if you implement the things, because like that, you will learn the nuances and details. All right, guys. So thank you so much for listening to this episode and Thank you also for your great support on this podcast. By the way, if you found this episode helpful, you can subscribe to this podcast on Spotify, apple podcast, google podcast. That would be would mean the law at the world to me. And if you think somebody else can benefit of this podcast, you are also warmly invited to share the link. This podcast. A warm Thank you to you and have a wonderful productive week. By ADHD high performance.