I was supposed to do boring life stuff today but I got heavily sidetracked by trying to model a physics problem.
This sort of distraction happens a lot to me, when I’m meant to be doing one chore but drop it and do a different one when I see it needs to be done. Like needing to clean the stove, then noticing the cupboards aren’t clean, and then staying up late cleaning my kitchen from top to bottom. The sort of thing where it’s hard to find motivation but once I do then I’m unstoppable.
I have a friend on adderall, and how he describes that drug it wouldn’t work to help this because it helps you focus, but not necessarily on the right thing. He once took it to finish an assignment and then got fixated on a videogame instead and played it until 5am.
Imagine dealing with ‘nerd sniping’ while already dealing with other interesting stuff. Or when reading a math textbook, you get sidetracked by thinking about what you are reading about, and do not notice that you have stopped paying attention to the textbook.
That was a thing I struggled with in university, properly allocating time to courses I struggled in instead of what I found interesting at study time