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 Hustle Culture and ADHD: A Toxic Mix

1 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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In this brief conversational excerpt, two speakers discuss how modern hustle culture—characterized by constant busyness, multitasking, and the pressure to always be productive—affects both people with ADHD and neurotypical individuals. They note that many busy adults, whether they have children, demanding jobs, or numerous responsibilities, often ignore their bodily signals, skip proper meals, and accept chronic fatigue as normal. The speakers criticize the narrative that everyone is perpetually tired and argue that feeling "crud" all the time is unhealthy and not an inevitable consequence of hard work.

Amen.
And I think— and I don't even think this is necessarily an ADHD thing anymore in our busy lives, because I will talk to neurotypicals that will say the same thing. Neurotypicals that are— have kids, are busy at work, are doing 9,000 things, they tend to not listen to their bodies and they forget to be mindful about themselves.
Amen. I think it's compounded by this idea that Oh, we're all tired. We're all hustling. We're all— we all don't have time to sit down and eat a proper meal. And one, that's not true. That's not true. Uh-uh. But two, that's horrible. Well, yeah, value in working hard, and sometimes we have to put certain things aside. Uh, sometimes we have to go, go, go, go, go, go. And it is not normal to feel like crud all the time.