and had the key points nailed down by the time my limo arrived at the hotel in Waterloo).
#ADHD HYPERFOCUS OBSESSION CRACKED#
In my work as a theoretician, (bounded) obsession of this type plays an important role in productivity.Ī main theorem in this 2014 paper, for example, was finally proved on the metro, whereas the main theorem in this 2013 paper was cracked on a speaking trip to Canada (I started working on it when I arrived at the airport in D.C. But the important thing is that I think I finally tamed that damnable theorem. It was ignored as was my e-mail inbox as were several pretty important administrative obligations. I started that day with a pretty elaborate time block schedule. Long story short, six hours later I had a proof that seems to work for a more or less reasonable version of the problem (time will tell). I scribbled notes for an hour, drove to campus, and set about trying to formalize my new idea.īut now I had the scent. It became a staple during my commutes to and from work, and began to hijack blocks of time from my otherwise carefully constructed schedules.Įarlier this week, the weather was nice, so while waiting out the traffic at home in the morning I sat outside in my backyard with my grid notebook (something about grid rule aids mathematical thinking) and, as I had been doing, noodled on the theorem. Predictably, I began to obsess about this proof - by which I mean I took to returning to the proof again and again during breaks in my working day. More importantly, it felt like it should be easy and I took it personally that it’s not. It’s not particularly flashy, but I need it for a paper. Study Hacks Blog Deep Habits: Obsess When Needed November 13th, 2014 įor the past two weeks, I’ve been trying to prove a bothersome theorem.
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