Productivity
3 terms
Body Doubling
Working or doing tasks in the presence of another person who provides passive companionship. Their simple presence—not helping, just existing nearby—makes starting and completing tasks dramatically easier for ADHD and autistic brains.
Context Switching
Context switching is the brutal cognitive price tag attached to every "quick question," every notification ping, every "this'll just take a second"—the hidden mental machinery required to save your entire cognitive state, dump it from working memory, load an entirely different program, run it, then somehow reconstruct where you were before the interruption shattered your flow. Like a computer forced to constantly swap between heavy programs on insufficient RAM, context switching transforms what could be smooth cognitive performance into a stuttering, exhausting cycle of mental stops and starts that leaves you wondering why you're so tired after a day of "just emails and meetings."
Task Initiation
The ability to start a task without unnecessary delay.