ADHD Hyperfocus Explained (..and how to use it to your ADVANTAGE)
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- Опубліковано 8 чер 2024
- Although still a controversial topic today (due to limited scientific evidence), for many of us, hyperfocus is part of every day, ADHD life.
Powerful, erratic, and somewhat mysterious, hyperfocus is a state familiar to anyone with ADHD who has ever gotten "in the zone" so totally on a project or task that the outside world has ceased to exist.
In this video you will learn that hyperfocus can have good and bad sides (such as getting hyperfocused on bad sides of your relationship), but can ultimitaly be used to your advantage by pursuing your natural interests and setting measurable goals towards them, keeping you motivated.
Ironically enough, we are then able to actually be more focused than the average person without adhd!
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Your hyper focus only works when you’re interested in something. Mostly your passion. It is very real and if you use it with your passion it can make you rich.
Most true statement here in my experience
I’ve always knew since I was a kid I can do things very easily, my only problem is not seeing a point in it. Now I think I know why.
First I think we should outline that passion is an emotion. So you want to do things that give you an emotional reaction called passion and motivation. However, the things that give you passion or motivation can also be split into things that abstractly attract your predispositions... and the mechanism that gives you motivation and passion is your perspective about how anything you are doing connects to some grand goal you have.
I have ADHD, I'm 34 now and over the years - using informed CBT based on evolutionary psychlogy, stoicism, zen meditation - I developed and expanded my perspectives about any work I do.
I now do things for the act of doing towards mastery of all things. Whether I'm working out, sorting emails, looking through spreadsheets, cooking, playing with my son. It is all a zen like flowstate of tranquility and happiness. ADHD can be made whole and fully adapted to modern society if you train yourself to enter flowstates while doing any task.
The thing is that there will be ups and downs and it takes some years but you do change your brain and you see the changes in a month, more and more. Diet is also an issue that almost everyone has that effects them at some point in there life or time of day.
Ok but I reallllllllllly need to get this coursework done
@@Fx_- that is interesting as fuck holy shit, I have never hyper focused this hard in a long time
I have adhd and I decided not to go to college. I hated school with such a passion and could never imagine myself working in an office my whole life. I stumbled across plumbing and found out I'm extremely gifted at it. I started my own van buisness at 23 years old and currently make 140$ an hour doing plumbing and hvac.
Nice!
Its interesting how the public sees this as a deficiency when in actual fact its a super power.
Adda boy! I'm 40 and retired from owning an electrical buisness.
king shit
Nice to hear that. I wish I recognized my ADHD earlier so that I could do the same decision. I can't do anything with people pressuring me like in collage. Even in my high school, I could only strive because it wasn't as strict as collage.
My adhd makes zero sense. I had a mental breakdown over ONE math page but spent 16 STRAIGHT hours doing homework . I’m literally not exaggerating.
same problem happened to me oml!!
I've been stuck on one of my writing assignments for a couple days but not even a week before that I did a good 10 hours of homework and got around 12 assignments done?? Like bruh
This literally happened just before I watched this. Do all adhd people share a mind???
@@ivy5231 lmaoo frr
im starting to think we do ;-;
@@gigibeal We will continue forming our collective consciousness. Together, ADHD people will have achieved supremacy and take over the world.
@@ivy5231 YES!!
I believe in ADHD supremacy >:)
My ADHD is so crazy. I fail in my science subjects, but I won a science project contest. The project made me stay awake for a whole night! That night I was so busy that I forgot something called sleep....lol. Hyperfocus exists for 200%.
Honestly same! I hyper focus on hands on things and ace them. I fail my paperwork because it’s soooo boring
The part about doing two UA-cam videos per month and having sleep seems the hardest part to me. How can sleep compete with the attractiveness of hyper focus?
I go to hyperfocous mode when i draw
It's how you learn. You learn more physically like most with ADHD, rather than mentally or visually
I also dont like college so it's really hard to focus on getting any of my assignments done and I feel guilty once I've realized that I've spent hours doing a task I wanted to do but not any of my assignments..
Trust me..I can relate. 😅🤣
YES! The guilt is always there!
Omg, I’ve found my people.
I can relate. I barely did any homework over the Thanksgiving break. Last night I went into hyper focus and took six tests and a writing assignment. Only took me 5 1/2 hours.
me tooo!!!! i discovered the day before yesterday i have hyperfocus and it really sucks because i can’t focus on things that matter.
hyperfocus doesn't just work with something your interested in. its just the most common time when people notice they've been under its effects. hyperfocus can engage in moments of intense emotional swings. this can be a strong passion. a heavy anxiety, or a deep looming fear. most people see the hyper focus when its over something they love. but that same person is also hyper focusing when they are in dire financial need. or when their life starts to feel like its crumbling around them. when the urge is strong enough adhd / hyperfocus engages a drive thats similar to standing up against natural law and the world to try and defy it, if there's a way. you WILL find it now.
I didn't learn about hyper-focus until I was an adult, and it explained so much. When I'm hyper-focused I'm literally unaware of what's going around me. People can speak to me, call my name... and I don't hear them. They think I'm ignoring them and won't believe otherwise, but I honestly can't hear them. I got into so much trouble with my teachers because of this when I was a child. And now as an adult, it hurts people's feelings because they think I'm intentionally ignoring them. It's so frustrating that people won't believe me. I'm not sure if this level of hyper-focus can be attributed to ADHD. I know I have ADHD, but I've recently come to suspect that I may also have Aspergers.
I snap at people. It's awful 😥I'll be sitting at my PC and all of a sudden my girlfriend will come into the room waffling about the final of Ru Paul or whatever tripe she's been watching. It's not pretty.
people with adhd cant drown out anything
@@AontheArtist I have adhd, and I also have the ability to hyper-focus. Therefore, a person with adhd can drown out what's happening around them; although that doesn't imply that everyone with adhd can do the same. This is my personal experience in my life; and based on the above video, I am not the only one. You may choose to believe whatever you want, but that's not fact, it's merely your opinion.
@@ripley2009 yeah must be different types then
@@AontheArtist ADHD is diverse, and hyperfocus is only for specific things. In this context, it's someone who's experiencing hyperfocus
I remember when I was a kid getting a model car set and spending several hours putting it together. My family was amazed and very confused because it was the summer and I hadn’t taken any medication. This explains it very well. I might also had that there’s an urge to get certain tasks done complete before being able to move on.
I do 96.5% of a task and consider it mastered and just deduce the other 3.5%... I seem to do it with almost every task. I even have to force myself to finish books lol
If you have adhd don't worry.
I sucked at school growing up and could never get engaged with learning. My teachers often made me think I'd have no future if I couldnt do better in class. But I was obsessed with my sports and excelled in them. 50percent student all though school.
Out of high-school I got into carpentry which I really had a passion for. By 21years old i built a house for myself start to finish. By 22 I started a general contracting company. At 24 I partnered in on a new business start up in oilfield trucking and rentals.
I'm now 34 and have multiple rental properties and still run 2 company's.
I finally realized my hyperfocused personality is what got me here today.
Some will call it a disability which is untrue. Learn what makes you tick and go after it full throttle. I honestly beleive it's a gift we have.
Vow❤
You inspire
Thanks 😊🎉
i just finished all of naruto in less then a month (in case you didn’t know naruto has 9 seasons and naruto shippuden has 20) and every time i took a little break it was the only thing i could think of. i would just stay in my room not taking a shower, not eating, not talking to my family, and pulling a ton of all nighters.
are you okay? ...
Kelley Bui i- i don’t know how to answer that 😂 i think so? i’m doing ok now...hopefully 😳
No this has to be an exaggeration. Jesus christ hahaha
@@ericrodriguez4192 maybe a little bit but still it was bad 😅
@@crow_aj haha mad respect
Yes. HYPER FOCUS totally exist. When im starting my small business, eventho that time i was working at factory as operator. I was bored at factory n looking for something that i like which selling. From that, i start to do sell. And within 2 month i can get rm3k per month. More double from salary. How i do that, cause im totally focus with my business. 24/7 hour my brain thinking the new strategy for marketing n design.
Same.
What business?
This explains why I procrastinate so much and why it’s suddenly so easy to complete things once it becomes necessary.
I remember never cleaning my room then ONLY cleaning my room all day until 3am!!!
I’d say it does for me. I am much better with deadlines (despite the panic) to the point on my college essay I cracked down and worked morning to night cause I wanted it to be great. 96 hours in one week, over 200 pages read for resource, 72 hours typing in 4 days. All for an essay on the psychology of Hamlet. I am definitely the type that once I get started, I’m in it until I crash and I can go hours without breaks (commonly 12+) but good luck getting me to start. That’s the hardest part that I need to work on.
I do agree. Hyper focus totally exists, i don’t know whether I have ADHD or not but I feel that when there’s something that *must* be done, or when I’m REALLY interested in something, I have 100 percent of my focus on that thing. Also, I am able to manage my time, tasks, and effectiveness so much better whilst in that state of mind purely because I have this lightning striking feeling that urges me to keep going. However, sometimes when this dies off, I do find a change in rhythm which ends up stimulating a chain of unwanted thoughts, actions and distractions. This video was great, doing small tasks first can provide a sense of dopamine which motivates us to continue our day on a positive note. I also found that external stimulus has a great impact on our minds, therefore, we should try optimising our time using the patterns that occur within us. Work on your weakness as like a strength, and utilise your strength as protection. Peace.
My obsession in life is the humanity, how we are and what we are… I truly try, every second of life to understand that what we are🙋♂️
I've been hyperfocusing for the last 5 days on how to control the hyperfocus. I think mindfulness gives a lever to control where it is directed. It's a pretty confronting process though.
Ended up working pretty well. It's about 'tricking' VTA dopamine reward pathways by 'mediting' or tricking those pathways. Fun times.
I have been hyperfocus in almost a year, I am top my school right now
@@shaymarta4389 it's been 8 months for me. My entire life turned around. Look at us go mate! We're doing it! ❤️❤️❤️
@@suburbanturnip2426 I tend to hyper focus on things like problems in society or like serial killer documentaries and research things a lot and hyper focus ppl and dark thoughts or just bizarre thoughts I also have impulses I was diagnosed with ADHD when i was younger i think it got better but I want to know on how to hyper focus on the right things cos most of the time i hyper focus on things that aren’t even like important and i hate that 😭
@@Kawaii_W3irdo learn about: VTA dopamine and how it relates to goals. And the default brain network and how it is different in our brains.
I do it all the time.
After a few years of just "randomly" entering this state with no explanation. I have FINALLY realized the correlation between them all; atleast for ME personally. I usually enter hyperfocus when there is a sufficient amount of external stimuli that requires swift internal thought>action. For example, I usually entered this state when I needed to handle a large amount of simple requests. I.e. Working at fast food during Lunch Rush and needing to keep track of the MANY different sandwich and burger ingredients whilst also keeping track of what completed products go in what bags to what customers from either Front or Drive Thru. Another example of entering this state was when I was bagging an overstuffed grocery cart (as an employee) and I needed to keep track of what types of items are allowed to go with each other, the order those items need to go in to fit, the weight of the bag and what spot in the customers cart would allow the most space for the rest of the future as of yet unbagged items.
basically, I go into this state when I need to make order of a chaotic mess.......problem is I get stuck in this state LONG after the rush ends, and all my friends/coworkers think I act rudely towards them when really, I just can't slow my mind back down.
To further expand on the above video, I also entered Hyperfocus in video games. Mainly in quick paced games (fighting games or action games). When an opponent makes ANY action, My mind immediately shows me all possible follow-up actions that opponent can make, and by extension, all MY possible game inputs to counter each of the aforementioned actions.........At my upper limit It was like I could see the future; however at the cost of not realizing my dog has been trying to get my attention, and thus just peed somewhere.
P.S. I'm INTJ-T
I'm an ENFJ-A with ADHD. Your experience of hyper focus matches mine. It is as if my brain wants background noise to tune out. I noticed my mind feels great when I am amongst trees with leaves blowing in the wind. I don't even focus on the trees or leaves, and my brain focuses.
INFP-A here and just got diagnosed to ADHD. Over these past couple of years I realized that I get into this hyper-focus state whenever I have LESS work to do or completion that is due- which means usually during holiday breaks. And since I am free most of the time, I spend time with my hobbies (like reading, doing puzzles, playing instruments, writing etc) but ONCE I feel this sudden energy, I STOP myself, and use it to study for something school related.
Like currently I have to study for the SAT for high school, and I struggle with it so so much. That’s why holiday breaks are so crucial for me to use this fixation on something I need to do TRICKING my brain as if I WANT to do this assignment.
I don’t know if it makes sense lol. But I started to realize I can actually use this ability as a superpower- making me accomplish anything I need to finish. This doesn’t work all the time too (rarely if I have to be honest), so trying to explore new ways to use ADHD to my benefit.
P.S I currently am not getting any professional help nor meds but hopefully I will soon :)
I went to college and in all the classes I was not intrested in, I was so miserable. I made it work and got good grades because I had to force myself to concentrate; it was very hard. However in my interesting classes, I excelled at them, had a lot of fun and had perfect grades. I just learned that I have ADHD at 41. I am excited that I can learn to channel this superpower.
1:24 indeed. It’s really hard to let go when you first get started. If I’m not careful, one session can end up being 30 to 40 hours long 😅
I feel you brother 😅
Hyperfocus absolutely exists.
Exactly as described here. The trick is, as described, finding the interest.
And with this gift, comes amazing accomplishments.
I have several high profile trade certificates, and own and operate $million dollar plus business in those trades, and earned an MBA post grad degree. All done in my 40’s and 50’s while overcoming substance abuse.
Without the super human Hyper focus ability, I wouldn’t have stopped the self medicating to dull the world, and I wouldn’t be in the position I am now.
The specialist tried me on medication 15 years ago to “treat my ADHD. I had to stop it. As I could not give up the gifts, this condition has given.
It is not all good, but in my case it is all about managing and channeling.
Don’t give up hope as it can be a super power.
This is true to me. Since the pandemic started, I have been losing motivation to make my tasks correlated to flexible learning. However, there's this day in where I finished 2 weeks worth of my tasks in only one day because the deadline scared the heck out of me. I also finished an 800+ pages of Harry Potter book overnight because it stimulated me so much. Lol.
I can relate to finishing 2 weeks worth in one day lmao. I did that for almost all assignments except if I was lucky enough to be in a good emotional state and tried to start small to do it. Being in a good emotional helped a lot but even that's hard to achieve. It didn't come out of nowhere. I had to invest in it by watching anime and exercising. These activities built my reason to live (I'm not suicidal btw, just clueless and depressed. just need a purpose) and my willingness.
Funny 😅how about when you hyper focus on relationships...if anyone gives a complement or complain won’t stop thinking about it...
Good point. I will be making a video all about ADHD in relationships soon so stay tuned! :)
yes!!! i avoid dating and just LIKING someone because i get OBSESSED and it really sucks! i just can’t “get over” someone easily so its better just avoid it...
I hyperfocus on he negatives of a relationship and stay depressed for a long time :/
That can be the worst thing in your brain lol
How about no though waste of time
This video motivates me to do the HUGE pile of dishes that has been there for three days :). And also, thank you for making videos and help me learn more about (my) ADHD. I do think that hyperfocus exists, for I've been able to focus for hours and hours in a row (which is not always healthy, because sometimes I focus for too long and can't stop). It helps me finishing papers, but it also makes my tired afterwards and when it happens for too long, I even dream about the stuff in my papers/exams.
Great to hear. Glad you got those dished done ;)
Music is what gets me through everything. Since I really like the music and want to keep listening, I want to continue the task. Whether that’s school, chores, or working out. It’s the thing that keeps me going
I never knew Hyperfocus was a thing til today. Through all of my school years all the way thru college, I’d always procrastinate and leave things to literary the day before or day of. Yet somehow I’d somehow immerse in the tasks I had to do that before I could never even put 1% of that focus before the deadline. I never understand why I was like this, but looking more into ADHD everything makes more sense. I think it’s about time to get checked out
You and me both bud
Same here
Hyperfocus TOTALLY exists. My sister interrupted me while I was watching this video and I realized I had been tuned out of the world until she pulled me back in. Now, I'm distracted again.
Other evidence includes the time and effort I've spent on videos and Gmod inventions that shouldn't've been created.
I have ADHD and experience this. But I still have to wonder how it is different from what normal people experience. Everyone knows what “flow” is.
lol That doesn't at all sound like what someone with ADHD might say. When you have ADHD, you can tell how different you are.
@@sherlylecty9345 You can’t speak for the other side lmao. Just stop
@@dylanbrookbank1935 Sorry didn't mean to be a cringy gatekeeper
@@dylanbrookbank1935 But Still What I said is true.
@@sherlylecty9345 i mean probably but I’m just saying. I think he’s just curious how other people feel
I believe in it. I have experienced it with fun stuff mostly, but now its changing. Im studying for a public job and taking the whole subject is hella boring, but I recently discovered that doing real exams and then doing research of the questions I don't know is a way of hyperfocusing on the study.
For me, it absolutely exists. Thanks for the channel.
Love the vid thank you for taking the time for it. Im more motivated now 💯
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My mother was told when I was Child that I have ADHD. It's has taken me a long time to embrace that I have ADHD. But alot Is making sense now that I have started to pay it some attention. I am thankful for these videos.
Very well edited video my guy!
I was diagnosed with ADHD in second grade and took medication till the beginning of an apprenticeship and totally failed every task that came with it & left in 5 months. Today I start to get interested in more and more stuff that I acutally enjoy & notice this hyperfocus for the first time in my life. I knew that flow state existed because of my gaming carrier, but what I have heard it's only there for a shorter amount of time. I can hyperfocus on stuff that I like for hours in & suddenly realize that I am starving or forgot something in the oven. It's very interesting to say the least.
Hey, yea gaming is a great way to realize adhd hyperfocus..thats definitelly the same for me as well. All the best!
hello!! I'm new here but I'm very happy I found your video! I am not diagnosed with ADHD or ADD but a few people that I know who have experience with ADHD says that I display some symptoms so I just wanted to learn more and i think you're great!!!
Thank you!
Hey good video, just thought I'd mention that in some of the voice over clips, like say at 3:59, you sometimes peak with your plosives (the "p" and "b" sounds) making the audio cut out. It's not a huge deal and it's super easy to deal with, a pop filter helps but it's just easier to position the mic a little off to the side of the direction you're speaking in
Hey thanks for the advice..I've been trying to get that under control but haven't managed it yet..I'm gonna definitely implement your advice for my next recordings :)
Hyper focus absolutely exists. It happens with me without me realizing it until I “snap out of it” always with things I enjoy doing like yard work, painting, and things like that.
You doin great, substantial and logical info. It actually exists, it’s strongly proven by my real experience, it makes sense, like a lot, thank you for the brain food that I haven’t thought about properly.
Well that explains why music teaching hooked on me when i was 13 and in school. i could barely focus on school work, but I'm currently going into my final year of my teaching degree and when i was doing classroom assistant and helping out, i could nail helping the other students and teaching small bits, and now im almost finished my degree for being a full time music teacher its almost like a light has switched. the same space but in two different places with the parallel effects!
Teaching music allows me to walk around the classroom a lot, be very interactive with the students, and it helps to get out a lot of my energy. I got diagnosed with it just before the summer and im 23, and my psychologist said it is a great job for someone with ADHD!
Hyper focus is what got me to this topic. This is like video #7 in the past 30 minutes 😂
Yeah I hyperfocus... Now at 39 yrsold I'm changing my career to a psychologyst cus that's the thing that is always interest me studging psychology, brain biology is exciting. I was in business and got MBA and all which was really wrong path for me....
Transcendental Meditation is like a key to hyperfocus
great video, thank you
I love when hyperfocus kicks in, but it's exhausting after.
I had such crazy hyperfocus today. It was insane and the day went by in a blur. life is tough because I have great periods of hyperfocus and confidence and other times struggles with deep depression. I do everything I can to be the best me. It's so weird how I switch states and feel like another person.
Woah great vid, my ADHD helped me have around 20 different jobs in 5 years, i never had a job for more than a year because none overlapped my passions, thanks dopamine deficiency😂. It does help me though, shows me things that don't make me happy clearly and it let me write a book 10-12 hours every day for 3 months straight, make music for 6 concegutive years without making 0,01$ or more with my songs. Big shoutout to ADHD and thanks for the helpfull video!
Thank you will share 🙏🏼
Hyper focus is also a gift, as no ordinary person at all can do it. It gives you advantage over most people. ADHD is not all about hypo focus, that's false, hyper focus is the only one blessing from it, because with it, you can complete what no normal person can, it is a gift if you managed to direct it and control it. From my opinion, if we managed to control this hyperfocus ability, and direct it well, ADHD won't be a problem anymore. Lets stop looking negatively towards it, an old saying goes "if you can't move the mountain, rotate around it." Some physicians and psychiatrist say that ADHD is not curable, well, we are gonna make use of the best of it, and it gives the advantage of hyper focus, what no normal person can experience, just learn to direct and control it and you'll be better than any normal person, we know all about adhd but all what's being said there is hindering focus while dumbly forgetting the fact about hyper focus presence, we can harness that rather than complaining about hypo focus. So either that or going with treatment programs or therapies or consider using medicines to become normal and reduce adhd to a very low percentage, because living with ADHD normally without treatment from it will just lead to a life of suffering.
i've come to this video after i made the realization and the decision that i want to become a ufc champion since i always loved to fight smart and the ring gave me such amazing stimulation and excitement.. i always saw clear signs of adhd but i refused to consider myself part of any "mental disorder" category. but the moment i decided i will chase my dream i literally could not sleep or think about anything else the whole day, if i wasnt training or sleeping i would be sitting twitching my leg constantly watching fights and trying to learn then stand up out of nowhere and try to mimick what i learned imagining i was in the ring, then i would spar and peopr always made the observation that i was very "alert" and they could hardly touch me.. it brings me such joy to know that my condition does not stand in the way of my dream but really gives me a unique way to achieve it, i wont fail you my fellow ADHD community and i will be 1 more example that you can achieve anything in life if you really go all in and not get discouraged
Awesome dream. Wishing u all the best in achieving it 🙌
I used to love writing term papers in school. I dreaded having to do it but once i started i actually had fun.
Back in Grade 9, I completed the entire Math Syllabus in 10 hours of an all nighter with 0 sleep and pretty much topped the class.
I never touched to the book and it was also fear considering people telling me they studied a whole year for it.
My whole life is filled with such instances and I've finally found an answer.
Hyperfocus is a two edged sword. The problem sometimes, like mine, socially acknowledged achievements creates a sense of security, thinking youll always be like this, and people put you in a pedestal and pressure can build up. When the negative side of it kicks in, it hits you by surprise and coping can take a lot of time and effort compared to a scenario where a person who’s been self aware of his disorder early on. I got my achievements not from a sense of pride, but of extreme interest… this crates false promises for my parents , trachers, friends and employers… now, im a bum doing my very best to overcome the hurdles hyperfocus can bring. But i want to acknowledge that though difficult, i should treat it as an important part and lesson in my life so that i can truly live in a fulfilling way
It's funny how you mentioned video games. It used to be the only thing I was able to focus on and would easily spend 20+ hours a day on a single player game in order to get every achievement. I managed to break the cycle by exercising... I'm now a national gold medalist bodybuilder and I am completely obsessed with nutrition and exercise.
I'm only now learning that hyperfocus exists, so thank you for the video! I'll make sure to subscribe.
it seems the answer almost has to be yes. depends how you define hyper focus. but to watch others get bored with things they seemed to be in love with so quickly, in the short term And the long term, tells me everything i need to know. i thought i was just more persistent and enduring but it turns out i have unregulated focus. but i kind of knew that. nice to hear it put in these terms
Agree..hyperfocus with me..thanks for your video.
thank you so much for this video. i discovered the day before yesterday i have hyperfocus. weeks ago i had a hyperfocus on keanu reeves, i know it sounds really awkward but i saw matrix for the first time a while ago and i watched all the films and watched all keanu reeves’ movies on telecine and netflix, watched all interviews i found about him and listened a 1 hour podcast about his life... now i’m ok but i was really suffering. i have hyperfocus in the most random things you could imagine.
also, i have ADHD
great video dude!
Thank you!
As someone with ADHD hyperactive/impulsive type, hyper focus absolutely exists, for better or for worse XD
I could spend hours upon hours cleaning my apartment, diving into a music genre or an artist, but I can also forget to eat/drink/take care of myself and my life in the process. It’s a double edged sword that I’m still learning to hone for sure. Thanks for the video!
Amazing channel!!!
Thank you!
Thank you!
I surround myself with only things that interest me, I hyper focus the day away on things that won’t build my future. I’m semi satisfied all the time! I can’t focus enough to read about each topic that interest me, causing me to quit 5 mins after I start! Then a new inspirational idea or task happens. The cycle repeats until I wake up the next day. I don’t progress for tomorrow because I get overwhelmed and frozen like a deer in headlights. I would like to gain control over it but can’t think about anything for more then 3 minutes without getting distracted 😩
For years, my hyperfocus seemed to come and go at random, mostly making an appearance when I was very interested in something. Great to get work done when it happens, but inconvenient when the task at hand is boring and I can't stay on task.
But I recently finally realized that rapid, monotonous music (e.g. Psytrance) can serve as additional stimulus, allowing me to hyperfocus even when the task itself isn't gripping enough to get me going!
Indeed Impressive!
The easiest way I have found in engaging my focus into the things that are painful for me to do, such as tasks that literally require every ounce of effort to perform or focus on, is to turn that task into a game or race. Every cell in my body wants to resist to even think of doing such a task, so in my mind I think "I did it last time in 8 minutes, can I do it in 7.5 minutes today?"
It still isn't easy like a task I'm interested in, but I can actually do it now.
What helps me I say to myself get it over with like doing the dishes and always look at the reward and rest my mind.
The things that arouse our interest are few and take all our attention so our focus on them becomes super
Yes
Ok lets watch this tomorrow
I'm hyperfocused/hyperfixated on MBTI and personality types, and cognitive functions. The way it works is just so cool
I started hyper focusing on something he said halfway through the video and shortly realized that I had been listening to him while thinking about something he had said a minute ago
I love these tips! They’ve been really helpful in finding success with my passion, making UA-cam videos as well!
Any quick advice on how to get yourself interested in the things that sometimes gotta be prioritized over your genuine passions?
Such as taxes, household chores, and important deadlines?
Hey Ryan, glad to hear it! Yea - I would connect these things to a bigger goal i.e. try looking at ur taxes not as an annoying, singular activity but as something that will make your life a lot easier once it's done. Also, don't tackle it all at once, set small goals and chip away bit by bit...u won't even realize your done when you are 😏
@@adhdvision great answer!
Hyper focus helped me accomplish so much in skateboarding within one year when most people take 5 years to progress as much as I did.
Hyperfocus is more prominent in my life than my all my emotions and all my interests combined.
I understand why it should be looked at with scepticism as there is currently limited evidence. But everything in this video rings totally true for me and all of my friends without adhd cant seem to relate to this.
If you have adhd, this is where you need to dig into, to succeed 👌
For some reason, during my last semester in college there was always a "wall in front of my brain" whenever I worked on assignments (this also happened throughout my time in college). It was terrible. It would lift the night before an assignment was due. About 99% of my assignments that last semester were overnighters.. literally finishing my assignment with enough time to print it out and head to class.
Thank you
I have played drums my whole live and love doing it. But sitting down to chart new songs for a gig takes a ton of energy. I usually wait till the last minute, rehearse the song, nail it live, feel awesome for a bit and crash 🙈
Right now ADHD is my hyper fixation which I’m focusing on. I’ve been researching for ages… I don’t even know how long
ADHD Hyperfocus makes you really good at processing arguments fast and effective. People will say you “argue too good”
I think I have that. At work, I can focus on an issue and pretty good at making a problem go away, but I either end up ignoring someone or missing my tools as a result AFTER I was done using them. lol Its made me disorganized. However, it does allow me to learn how to fix things and complete a task fast.
I have ADHD hyperfocus when it comes to learning anything I am interested I usually spend 10 to 15 hours nonstop learning but when it comes to something I do not like every little thing will distract me
As someone with ADHD nobody can convince me that Hyper Focus isn't real.
I can use it both to draw for hours on end without any rest inbetween and manage to work on vital homework, once I had a Spanish homework and I had to answer an insane amount of questions on a total of more than 30 pages, I never cared about it most of the time but one day I just decided to get it over with and finished it in 7 hours straight.
Hyper focus is cool, but it's weird at the same time, motivation is a huge factor in the equation.
I have heard that it's not hyperfocus, but the difficulty with taking focus off of an enjoyable task
So... When I get into hyperfocus, what happens a lot with things I want to solve or like, I forget to eat, drink, that people exist, everything. It's pretty handy when you parents force you to go to a gathering. You get your kindle out and turn off all sound around you. Can be unhealthy too, since I ended up forgetting to eat hehe
I started a new job a year ago, at 45yo. Repeatedly through my life I've fallen ill but never understood why, had good jobs and good pay. This time I took a lower paid job but within a field of high interest. After a few months I really thrived but was almost crippled by migraines and back aches. Nonetheless, everything I wanted was to work more, so I never called in sick. It was only after a YEAR I realized I actually hyperfocus and then my health crashes. Me wanting only to work more is not a solution, it is a symptom if my brain loving the hyperfocus. And then my health suffers.
I'm in the process of diagnosing, it will be very interesting.
I didn’t even know I did this but yes truth wow 😯 I feel that i can feel others emotions and sometimes if I’m oppressed it’s hard to concentrate not cause it’s boring but cause people impose there reasonings in me and I need my mental space people be blocking me . I hyper focus when it’s my own initiative and not controlled by others.
I know hyper focus exists. I especially do it when I'm doing art. Most times I don't even realize in in it until hours have past and i haven't eaten, or taken a break and my artwork is almost done, hahaha.
Sounds like you should continue doing Art;)
Hyperbolische definitely exists.
I experience it regularly, but only recently have I been able to use it in productive ways.
Before that I often spent a lot of my time just reading about the care requirements of certain fish, reptiles and amphibians and I know pretty much all of them off the top of my head, but it didn’t help me in any way.
But now I started to work on funding my own small business in the petcare sector and suddenly my hyperfocus helps me a lot in working towards this goal.
But I still need to find a way to use it to actually achieve more at university. Just don’t manage to stay focused there even tough I‘m really interested in the things I study
I only hyperfocus on video games or if I'm in fear, I focus on the thing I'm scared of, if I'm in fear I can hear conversations of bullies across the freaking yard
I'm a line cook in a restaurant. I can feel it when I flip the switch and I block everything out.
Yes Hyperfocus do exist. There are certain things i do and lose track of time. Sometimes i am indulge in doing something that i forgets that i've eaten nothing since morning. Otherwise when i get bore i overeat(mostly stimulating food like sugary things or spicy things)
I love to game, but I seriously hyperfocus badly when I play video games. As I've gotten older, I started using video games as my end of day reward. I get everything else that's important for the day done, before I allow myself to touch a controller or keyboard. Honestly, a huge part of why I do this is because I could never get anything done if I allowed myself to play video games before completing my other day's task. I literally can forget to eat or use the restroom when I hyperfocus on a video game, so I have to control when I allow that to happen. The other thing I can severely hyperfocus on is creating a piece of art.
When I was in school I learned if I pretended to be interested in a subject and took great notes, I’d pass and retain information long enough to pass an exam. I only loved math and science. I
never liked English because I couldn’t remember what I read cause I was always thinking about other things. And I never would’ve thought I had adhd as a child. But I remember asking my mom how I could stop thinking. And she’d tell me I supposed to think. But I new my brain was on another level. I think if I lived in a community that didn’t require structure or schedules (shift work) I’d be productive. It seems like I just self sabotage like if I have to do something my brain automatically does something else. But if I don’t need to do something that’s what I tend to lean towards. This is crazy idk how I made it too college. It’s like mental hell
I got in trouble at school for hyper focusing on research for a science assignment. When the rang people around me left and the room got quiet. My teacher tried to get me to leave but my eyes were wide open for ages. There were 5 teachers in there I finally snapped out of it when I got angry and started bashing the of my pen into the top of my head. (I'm in 7th grade and just moved to Virginia so no one knew what was going on.) They took my computer away so now I have to sleep through math and a class with no teacher. It sucks!
Hyperfocus has almost led me to success so many times.
I haven’t revised in my life because I can’t concentrate but spent 4 hours straight complete my entire coursework just before it was due
Dunno if it is simply "a good day" like everyone has. But somedays im just so incredible clear in mind that im incredible focused and REALLY REALLY good at the thing i want to do. Being able to shift into that "absolute clearness of mind" at will would be amazing. On these days i feel like im unstoppable. Until i overthink about it and i fall out of that state.
Same same. A lot of times I'll have like a perfect day or weeks, and then after that period I'll just be super unenergized for anything
ADHD is quickly becoming the norm amongst children. This topic is extremely important and surely will help me :)
I remember doing some research for my debate class last year (I was a freshman at the time) and I was researching pollution and disproportionately affected groups, and I remember finding that areas with smog polluted air typically had a higher rate of producing children with adhd, I’m not completely sure about the correctness of this but it may be a contributing factor
My man, that’s what’s called over diagnosing
I'm 52 and have recently been diagnosed. Awareness has recently increased.
It’s not ‘normal’. Don’t downplay a neurological condition. 1/10 (at most) in a nation is not normal. Misdiagnosis is more likely the norm. ‘Wanting’ a label is becoming the norm. Over self diagnosis of depression and anxiety is the norm. It’s like a cool tag. You can feel down but not be depressed. You can feel anxious, but not suffer with anxiety. You can be fidgety and ‘hyperactive’ and not have adhd.
Padezco de hyper focus, y es algo muy espectacular, siento que el mundo al rededor mío se apaga y que el tiempo se vuelve lento muy lento, solo soy yo y lo que tengo al frente, es una concentración muy fuerte, el problema que olvido pestañar y por lo tanto empiezo a llorar o mantengo una posición incomoda durante horas y al momento de salir de este estado prácticamente estoy todo entumecido, en fin tienes sus pro y contras
Destroy the charts, go supersaian
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