ADHD Wise Squirrels for late-diagnosed adults with ADHD.
Oct 14, 2026 · 7 min · 7 segments
**Want help putting this into practice?** Book a free good-fit coaching session with Dave: https://wisesquirrels.com/coach In this episode, Dave shares a strategy…
So let's start with something I want you to stop doing, which is blaming yourself.
Your phone was built by very clever people who are paid extremely well to make it difficult to put it down.
When you pick it up to check one thing and then you resurface 11 minutes later [laughs] having learned nothing, it's not a character flaw.
You cannot out-discipline a system that's been A/B tested on two billion people.
What you can do is change the environment so the decision gets made once in advance by the version of you who's thinking clearly, not 50 times a day when the version of you who's tired at 4:00 in the afternoon is struggling.
So let's start with something I want you to stop doing, which is blaming yourself.
Your phone was built by very clever people who are paid extremely well to make it difficult to put it down.
When you pick it up to check one thing and then you resurface 11 minutes later [laughs] having learned nothing, it's not a character flaw.
You cannot out-discipline a system that's been A/B tested on two billion people.
What you can do is change the environment so the decision gets made once in advance by the version of you who's thinking clearly, not 50 times a day when the version of you who's tired at 4:00 in the afternoon is struggling.
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