Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

The Dangers of Unchecked #Hyperfocus #selfcare #mentalhealthawareness #balancelife #focustips

3 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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Unchecked hyperfocus can cause serious harm: skipping meals, sleep, and hygiene leads to physical injury and brain damage. The speaker went weeks without sleep. Hyperfocus becomes a strength only with basic self-care, eating and sleeping while you work.

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The other kind of hyperfocus, you guys have heard me say this in the past, where you are so intensely focused on something, you don't eat, you don't sleep, you don't drink. And I've had this happen and I've actually done physical damage to my brain and my body doing this, that you cannot sleep for weeks on end or do anything else or function in any other way. That kind of hyperfocus is bad. Yeah. Prevent those kinds of hyperfocus. This kind of hyperfocus is exactly the, the kind of hyperfocus That, that is a superpower when you're ND. So it's about temperance, right? So hyperfocus is okay if you can sleep. If you're still taking care of your basic needs, eat, sleep, drink, showering, you know, that kind of thing, then hyperfocus is okay.