<story><title>How to Be Indistractable</title><url>https://psyche.co/guides/to-become-indistractable-recognise-that-it-starts-within-you</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sideshowb</author><text>If your problems with distraction are severe enough to affect your mental health it&amp;#x27;s worth considering the possibility you have undiagnosed ADHD. Just because you sometimes code for 12 hours straight doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you don&amp;#x27;t (common misconception).&lt;p&gt;5 minute ASRS screening test here (pdf, not some data harvesting online monstrosity):&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;add.org&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;adhd-questionnaire-ASRS111.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;add.org&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;adhd-questionnair...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fasteo</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Just because you sometimes code for 12 hours straight&lt;p&gt;Precisely because you can code 12 hours non-stop, you chances to have undiagnosed ADHD are actually higher.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Attention Deficit isn&amp;#x27;t an inability to focus, it&amp;#x27;s an inability to exert executive control over focus&amp;quot;. This is the best ADHD description I have read. Of course, here in HN[1]&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22135054&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=22135054&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>How to Be Indistractable</title><url>https://psyche.co/guides/to-become-indistractable-recognise-that-it-starts-within-you</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sideshowb</author><text>If your problems with distraction are severe enough to affect your mental health it&amp;#x27;s worth considering the possibility you have undiagnosed ADHD. Just because you sometimes code for 12 hours straight doesn&amp;#x27;t mean you don&amp;#x27;t (common misconception).&lt;p&gt;5 minute ASRS screening test here (pdf, not some data harvesting online monstrosity):&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;add.org&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;adhd-questionnaire-ASRS111.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;add.org&amp;#x2F;wp-content&amp;#x2F;uploads&amp;#x2F;2015&amp;#x2F;03&amp;#x2F;adhd-questionnair...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hackerman123469</author><text>I agree with you and people with ADHD has an ability called hyper-focus which let&amp;#x27;s us (I am diagnosed with ADHD) focus on stuff without ever letting go.&lt;p&gt;ADHD has a kind of wrong name in that it has &amp;quot;Attention Deficit&amp;quot; when really paying attention is not the problem, regulating attention is the problem.&lt;p&gt;We often struggle with either paying too little attention or too much attention.</text></comment>