Such as counterintuitive fixes to a problem, or where a mistake unexpectedly results in an even better outcome than originally hoped for.
Such as counterintuitive fixes to a problem, or where a mistake unexpectedly results in an even better outcome than originally hoped for.
When I wanted to stop smoking, the idea of never smoking again would make me stressed and make me want to smoke.
The solution was I put “have a cigarette” on my to-do list, at the bottom.
So I never quit smoking, I’m definitely going to have a cigarette at some point, when I get round to it - just after I’ve re-tiled the bathroom, wrote a novel, made a computer game, taught the cat to play piano, finished a series of 100 paintings, wrote an album of songs etc…
… so it’s over ten years since I last had a cigarette, and there’s only a thousand or so things to do on my to-do list.
Would you accept a cigarette from Scp-4999?
Having read that, yes :)
ADHD W
This is pure genius.
I think it only works if your brain is wired in a particular way.
Tons of open browser tabs? Long, impossible-to-complete to-do list? Unread emails? Unplayed Steam Games?
Good chance of it working :)
I have all of those… Except my to-do lists are not actually long because I never get around to adding stuff to them.
Hahaha.
I used to have a home office room, and I bought and installed a whiteboard on the wall, for noting things down, planning, to-do list etc.
For five years, it had a single scrap of paper blue-tacked to it, which read “1) Buy a whiteboard pen”.
I eventually solved it by moving house.
Thanks for the reminder. I put up whiteboards for my kids a bunch of years back, and all the pens are dead.
Of course, both kids are in college and I have no use for those so maybe the boards should come down