The Hidden Cost of ADHD Novelty Seeking (And How to Fix It)
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Presented by Understood.org
You don’t have a lack of focus. You have too many ideas pulling it in different directions.
This episode builds on Wednesday’s breakdown of ADHD novelty bias and shows you how to actually manage it without shutting it down.
Because the goal isn’t to stop having ideas. It’s to stop them from constantly disrupting execution.
You’ll hear how to treat novelty as input instead of immediate action, how to capture ideas so they stop feeling urgent, and how to create a buffer between what you’re thinking about and what your business actually does.
Right now, every new idea feels important. And when your attention shifts, everything else follows.
This is about keeping the ideas, without letting them take over.
What We Cover:
- Why novelty needs a system, not suppression
- How capturing ideas reduces the urge to act on them
- The “novelty as input, not strategy” approach
- Why your team follows your attention automatically
- How to create a buffer between ideas and execution
- Why most ideas lose urgency if you don’t act on them immediately
If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Sorry, I Missed This.
Listen here: https://lnk.to/sorryimissedthisPS!theadhdskillslab
About ADHD founders for ADHD founders.
Interesting in working together? You can click here to receive a free bottleneck audio session and learn more about what we do. https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/unstuckaudiosession
Diagnosed with ADHD at the start of her PhD, Skye Waterson spent years researching what actually works and writing about it for thousands of founders. The pattern she kept finding: ADHD business owners don't have a focus problem, they have an operations problem, because the whole business runs through their own head. Now she and her husband, former programmer Robert Waterson, work as fractional COOs for those founders. They find the bottleneck, hire the fix, and build the system that holds.
Subscribe to our Newsletter - https://unconventionalorganization.substack.com/
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Description:
Presented by Understood.org
You don’t have a lack of focus. You have too many ideas pulling it in different directions.
This episode builds on Wednesday’s breakdown of ADHD novelty bias and shows you how to actually manage it without shutting it down.
Because the goal isn’t to stop having ideas. It’s to stop them from constantly disrupting execution.
You’ll hear how to treat novelty as input instead of immediate action, how to capture ideas so they stop feeling urgent, and how to create a buffer between what you’re thinking about and what your business actually does.
Right now, every new idea feels important. And when your attention shifts, everything else follows.
This is about keeping the ideas, without letting them take over.
What We Cover:
- Why novelty needs a system, not suppression
- How capturing ideas reduces the urge to act on them
- The “novelty as input, not strategy” approach
- Why your team follows your attention automatically
- How to create a buffer between ideas and execution
- Why most ideas lose urgency if you don’t act on them immediately
If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Sorry, I Missed This.
Listen here: https://lnk.to/sorryimissedthisPS!theadhdskillslab
About ADHD founders for ADHD founders.
Interesting in working together? You can click here to receive a free bottleneck audio session and learn more about what we do. https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/unstuckaudiosession
Diagnosed with ADHD at the start of her PhD, Skye Waterson spent years researching what actually works and writing about it for thousands of founders. The pattern she kept finding: ADHD business owners don't have a focus problem, they have an operations problem, because the whole business runs through their own head. Now she and her husband, former programmer Robert Waterson, work as fractional COOs for those founders. They find the bottleneck, hire the fix, and build the system that holds.
Subscribe to our Newsletter - https://unconventionalorganization.substack.com/
Follow us on Instagram - @unconventionalorganisation
Visit our website - https://www.unconventionalorganisation.com/
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