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  • Inability to settle on the right words: I’ll write something and think that what I wrote could be written better or differently and then I keep on writing and deleting and rephrasing with different words. Thus making very slow progress.

    editing is not writing, don’t edit before you are done writing the first version of your story, and editing gets easier after the first enarmourment for a story has worn off anyway. sounds easier than it is, but the voice in your head telling you that you are writting badly is not your friend and not helping, even if it might be right sometimes.

    Problems with continuity: I might think up a somewhat long plot line. But I have to write the whole thing in one go because if I don’t then my brain will splinter the story into multiple possible story branches when I stop and I am unable to choose the path to follow.

    have a look at the “snowflake method” and learn about various story structures to help plan the beats of your story. if planning far ahead is not your jam jot down some notes for what happens next, or if you can’t decide turn the possibilities into yes/no-questions flip a coin and run with whatever fate decided. in general take notes, can’t trust that brain to produce the same output twice.

    Lose interest in continuing if I take a break: If I stop writing mid way and take a break from writing for an extended period of time, I am unable to find the motivation to resume. Mostly because trying to catchup with the story up to that point feels hard. I have this same tendency with video games as well where I don’t feel like picking up a game after an extended period of absence.

    thats normal, if a story can’t reignite the spark that lead to starting it in the first place, that story won’t be finished. keep it somewhere you see it from time to time, it might call you someday and if it does not that’s fine, most stories are never finished. if you want to finish something badly try to set a deadline you cant easily ignore, i turned short stories into gifts (a long with a ‘real’ gift) sometimes just to have a reason why it must be done on day x. the story was not necessarily for the person i gifted it to, but i needed the pressure.






  • had this during exams and such.

    take a step back, check if the intensity of the emotion is warranted and let it wash over you, extreme emotions tend to be short lived.

    i was not about to die, even if my brain suggested that, and it had to relent after me being still alive after 5 minutes sitting right there before my tasks.

    my problems started when i would ‘feed’ those emotions by fantasizing about the impending catastrophe or giving in and acting on them, by fleeing the class room for example.

    i guess this would be harder in a social encounter, but the first step is allways realizing that an emotion is to intense, once that’s done its easier to return to reason and not instinct.

    tl;dr :

    1. realize that emotion is there
    2. experience the emotion
    3. move on.

    took me a lot of therapy to start at step 1 and not going from step 2 to “do a stupid thing you’ll regret in 5 minutes”



  • first: don’t stress it, sustainable weight loss is slow everything else will end up with you regaining the weight when you stop with whatever hyped up diet or hardcore sports program you tried.

    find an activity, that burns calories that you enjoy doing, and do it because it’s fun. try new things when something is not fun.

    identify a high calorie source that you can somewhat easily eliminate, for many people that’s sugary drinks (including fruit juice).

    get yourself to step on a scale every morning. weight is on a downwards trend week to week? you are on the right track. keep doing what you are doing.

    weight goes up sometimes? don’t worry that happens we are running a marathon here. if it keeps increasing you’ll either can do more activities that burn calories or find another calorie source you can cut back on.

    It might also help, to either eat slower, because “being not hungry” has a delay or drink a glass of water before every meal, so you’ll feel full faster.

    and always remember, this is not a sprint, sometimes you’ll gain weight, that does not mean you failed, you don’t start back at zero.


  • Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.orgtoADHD@lemmy.worldHow do you study?
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    7 months ago

    i am probably not the best example, as i never finished my degree, but studiying is the one thing where pomodoro timers were actual helpful for me, but nothing was better than having a small group of people to study with.

    Working on problems together on a whiteboard was almost magical, because so much stayed in my brain without totaly draining my batteries.

    other than that keeping things fresh and fun is important, to this day i’ll draw pictures on my notes when going through them, emphasize stuff by putting it in speech bubbles or write stupid stuff in foot notes.

    i also sometimes experiment with different note taking techniques, but it’s mostly bullet points.




  • not an authentik user, but after skimming their docs i think you have to:

    1. create a role “ocisAdmin” via authentiks admin interface
    2. give this role to a group in the admin interface or create one.
    3. assign a user thats supposed to be an owncloud admin to the group

    it might be that you also have to define somekind of mapper to include this in the informations owncloud receives from authentik, but as i said i only skimmed the docs and would personally just try it without the mapper.





  • never heard of it and assuming you mean streamlit.io

    the framework itself seems quite nice, even if pretty much only tailored to presenting data in a good looking way, but i’d never run anything on their cloud service.

    By making Provider Content available and/or accessible through the Service, Provider hereby grants to Company a non-exclusive, irrevocable, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, display, publish, perform, reproduce, distribute, copy, modify, and create derivative works of Provider Content in connection with operating and providing the Service.

    yeah, no screw that i am more than willing to share code, but nothing more.

    and it’s probably easier to find help for flask or django on the internet, both are well known frameworks that see industry use for years, where streamlit seems to be very young and less known(plus the aggressive pointing to there ‘free’ cloud stuff)




  • Keeping focus for a whole movie can be tough yeah.

    it works way better if i’ve taken my meds( huge suprise, i know :D) and even better in a cinema opposed to watching on tv or phone, i guess the big screen and proper sound system are just more engaging and there is less distraction.

    If i watch a movie at home i often do it by watching it in like 30 minute episodes, because otherwise i end up rewinding multiple times anyway and that’s frustrating, so i rather take a break from it if my brain won’t cooperate.