Prioritization is one of the things thats totally abhorred by people with ADD. Logical, linear-thinking people have no problem when they sit down to write out the steps to a project—the first thing you do is step one, then two, then three. And linear thinking people have no problem with that. ADD people, on the other hand, have a horrible time thinking one, two, three. Because we say A, D, 27, 17, 0. And it all makes sense to us.
Add people see the big picture, but even more… the universal picture, about how things fit together. Because of that, randomness seems perfectly normal to us. It makes sense, where linear-thinking people just don’t get it.
Except, what happens because of this is that ADD people trying to prioritize a huge project get overwhelmed. That makes it extremely hard to get their ADD mind around the project.
The skill ADD people need to learn is “chunking,” which is basically breaking a huge project down into chunks.
So lets take for example something really, really simple like clean your room, okay? And lets say that youve spent the last, I dont know, 3.5 weeks just walking in and out of your room...