1) Anki is a life saver for interviews: in the short term, it helps me memorize and review stuff about the company in advance. In the long term, it helps me memorize IT related stuff, and even leet code exercise. This maximize the chances I'll be able to answer without having to search through my memory.
2) I try to engage with the information I need to memorize in different formats (Text, Video, Image, Mindmaps, etc...). This helps me build multiple paths in my head to find the same information, which then makes it easier to remember it on the spot. Betterexplained has a pretty good framework for that, ADEPT : Analogies, Diagrams, Examples, Plain English, traditional definition.
3) Anxiety makes the symptoms worse, so I try to jog and meditate on a daily basis. Journaling is also extremely helpful, since it allows to get things off your chest and mind.
4) The brain fog is more intense after doing something stimulating, so if I know I need to focus, I try no to play video games, watch movies, etc...
5) The state of what's in my head is always kind of like the state of my apartment, so I try to keep it clean
6) A bad diet makes the symptoms worse, so if yours isn't good try to follow the usual recommendations.
7) Not eating enough, and not eating often enough can have a huge impact. This can especially be a problem for us since the medication can stop you from feeling hunger.
8) Similarly, when you're not hydrated enough, your ability to focus drops, and the first signs of a lack of hydration isn't thirst, so make sure to regularly drink water regardless of whether or not you feel thirsty.
9) Practice out loud different ways of responding to questions commonly asked, and questions you feel they might ask you. That's kind of like what I do to retain information: Building different paths to the same information so that I won't freeze during the interview.
10) You already know that you'll never be able to be perfectly prepared, so prepare in advance things to say when you're asked something you're not able to answer on the spot, things to gain time as well as things to say when you can't answer.
11) Since you still have some leeway, treat the first few interviews you'll do as experiments, and after each one of those, look at the results, identify what went wrong, make some hypothesis on what could you do to fix it, and try it out in the next one.
12) Join a community of people sharing your struggles.
I have ADHD too but I have also over prepared for interviews in the past to try to not have anxiety.
I just ended up sounding like someone reading a prepared answer because I kind of was.
The last two jobs I got, I didn't prepare at all. I just went in then without anxiety because it wasn't all built up in my head and I was actually able to have a nice conversation like a normal person as opposed to sounding like a robot answering test questions.
Reading though your link, something felt... Wrong ?
That's not even remotely close to be a study, that's an opinion piece that threw everything at the wall, relied mostly on self-report studies, it used figures to show how sex-related things are everywhere but not to highlight their negative impact, and it seemingly also uses 40 year old data, and considering how much things have changed since then, I'm not quite sure that it is still relevant.
That's not to say I disagree with the idea that porn can have a negative effect, but using the least objective source you could have found is just...
The American College of Pediatricians are basically a fraud. It's a conservative abstinence/anti-LGTB advocacy group hoping you confuse it with the (legitimate) American Academy of Pediatrics.
A single one of the studies was from the 1980s. See the references.
But fair enough this was probably a poor source. There are dozens of papers that appear for any search on this.
Honestly, I'm surprised it's not just be intuitive. But maybe not. I've worked a lot with children in different circumstances, including in the foster system. Early sexual exposure causes issues.
chatgpt is proficient enough in writing web dev CRUD app code, which leads some to believe it'll lead to obsolescence of that particular skill set, and collapse the job market and pay for that, much like the skills of a horse-drawn wagon driver, or a buggy-whip manufacturer.
When I "blitz", I'm looking for an immersive, memorable experience in my target language. Learning is merely a bi-product of that.
That said, as someone with an A1 ability according to CEFR (I started learning Polish 5 months ago), my ability to follow along with a native speaking narrator, even at 2x speed, has improved exponentially. My exposure to Polish vocabulary has also exploded, and I'm familiar with many Polish words in their various grammatical forms. However, I haven't committed to long term memory as many Polish words as I'd like to. Many meanings are still fuzzy, like a word at the tip of the tongue. I think I just need to see these familiar but fuzzy words in more diverse contexts before they are nailed down. That means more blitzing.
> First, "slow-thinking" is really just a different way of expressing your thinking and you should begin by leaning into it rather than leaning away. Take time, allow yourself to pause to collect your thoughts. People often interpret quietness (not filler) as intelligence and maturity (because usually it is). Alternatively not answering is also valid.
From experience, it doesn't work, especially in a group setting. People usually end up trying to guess what you want to say, or add on to what they said, or move on, or something.
But they very rarely just wait patiently for me to think things through.
What I do in those cases of to arbitrarily pick an order to do those things. (Likeliness to become urgent in the future, difficulty, unpleasantness, etc...) If I can't, I just pick a random order
I've tried learning strategies rather than tactics, but it's significantly harder both to learn and to use. I've learned a lot about imbalances for example, but all of this knowledge goes out of the window whenever I start playing.
You actually shouldn't learn any strategies. They're usually too difficult and very often don't make any sense.
There are two possible long-term plans: giving the checkmate and gaining more resources if you feel like you don't have enough to give the checkmate. In the majority of your middlegames (depending on your level) your plan should be attacking the king.
Attack the king and align your moves with this plan. That's the only strategy you should have. Don't overcomplicate chess. Then you should play as much as possible and get feedback. Most of the time you get it when you make a mistake and your opponent punishes you. This way you can slowly, game by game, build the next layer of your chess understanding.
1) Anki is a life saver for interviews: in the short term, it helps me memorize and review stuff about the company in advance. In the long term, it helps me memorize IT related stuff, and even leet code exercise. This maximize the chances I'll be able to answer without having to search through my memory.
2) I try to engage with the information I need to memorize in different formats (Text, Video, Image, Mindmaps, etc...). This helps me build multiple paths in my head to find the same information, which then makes it easier to remember it on the spot. Betterexplained has a pretty good framework for that, ADEPT : Analogies, Diagrams, Examples, Plain English, traditional definition.
3) Anxiety makes the symptoms worse, so I try to jog and meditate on a daily basis. Journaling is also extremely helpful, since it allows to get things off your chest and mind.
4) The brain fog is more intense after doing something stimulating, so if I know I need to focus, I try no to play video games, watch movies, etc...
5) The state of what's in my head is always kind of like the state of my apartment, so I try to keep it clean
6) A bad diet makes the symptoms worse, so if yours isn't good try to follow the usual recommendations.
7) Not eating enough, and not eating often enough can have a huge impact. This can especially be a problem for us since the medication can stop you from feeling hunger.
8) Similarly, when you're not hydrated enough, your ability to focus drops, and the first signs of a lack of hydration isn't thirst, so make sure to regularly drink water regardless of whether or not you feel thirsty.
9) Practice out loud different ways of responding to questions commonly asked, and questions you feel they might ask you. That's kind of like what I do to retain information: Building different paths to the same information so that I won't freeze during the interview.
10) You already know that you'll never be able to be perfectly prepared, so prepare in advance things to say when you're asked something you're not able to answer on the spot, things to gain time as well as things to say when you can't answer.
11) Since you still have some leeway, treat the first few interviews you'll do as experiments, and after each one of those, look at the results, identify what went wrong, make some hypothesis on what could you do to fix it, and try it out in the next one.
12) Join a community of people sharing your struggles.
13) Get your 8h of sleep