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Why ADHD Brains Struggle With Projects
Description
Presented by Understood.org
You can handle individual tasks all day. But the moment something becomes a project, everything slows down.
Research into ADHD executive functioning suggests the difference often comes down to planning demands, not motivation or intelligence.
In this episode, Skye and Robbie break down what these experiments reveal about ADHD and why complex projects require building a sequence before starting. That requirement can create real cognitive friction for many ADHD brains.
On Friday, we’ll look at the practical systems that reduce this planning load and make complex work easier to execute.
What We Cover
- Why ADHD often struggles more with projects than tasks
- What “tower task” planning experiments reveal about ADHD
- Why working memory and inhibition appear most consistently affected
- Why ADHD is a performance issue rather than a knowledge issue
- How planning demands make complex work cognitively inefficient
If you're enjoying ADHD Skills Lab, you may also enjoy Understood.org’s new podcast, Everyone Gets a Juice Box: For Parents of Neurodivergent Kids.
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