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Autism And ADHD My Secret Weapon YOU Need! · Aspergers & Autism Podcast [The Aspie World] AuDHD

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  You have arrived. Welcome to the Aspy world.
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  Here's where we talk about anything and everything ASD in
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  an upbeat and informative way. And now here's your man on the
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  spectrum, your autism ambassador, Daniel Morgan Jones.
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  In this video I'm talking about autism and EDHD and how long I
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  use this secret weapon to help the two work and how many
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  together. Oh, that's coming right up.
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  So don't go anywhere. Hey guys, what's going on?
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  My name is Dan, I have autism and ADHD, and I make weekly
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  videos all about this stuff. So if you're new around here and
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  you want to learn more, remember to hit the subscribe button,
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  look at the notification bell. So you learn more from all my
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  videos I put out. This video guys, is really
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  interesting because I'm talking about something very specific,
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  which I call my secret weapon for autism and ADHD, and I'm
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  going to pass it on to you so you can understand more about
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  what I do. So autism and ADHD, one
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  interesting combination. Lots of people who are diagnosed
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  autistic are also diagnosed with ADHD.
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  Now I have my own theory on this and my theory is that I believe
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  autism and ADHD are comorbid which means they are Co
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  occurring just across the board. Like that is it they just always
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  will always have been and it's always going to be the same.
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  However some people just have ADHD diagnosis and some people
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  just have autism diagnosis. Now the interesting thing about
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  when they are fused together is that autistic individuals love
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  the to fixate hyper focus and stick on one task and get really
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  obsessed with that one thing like a hyper concentration.
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  If whereas ADHD allows the person to switch between two
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  different tasks, three different tasks and want to be switching
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  between different tasks all the time.
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  Now this can cause some conflict.
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  Imagine being the person sitting down, right?
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  I'm going to sit down and just watch this documentary on
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  Bitcoin or whatever, because that's your obsession say.
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  And then all of a sudden your brain's like get up, walk to the
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  other end of the room, play with that tennis ball, take the dog
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  out for a walk. Now we need to snack.
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  OK, stand up, my legs sitting like there's so many things that
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  the ADHD brain will attack the autism brain or part of the
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  brain. I mean, it's one brain, but but
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  you know what I mean? Like those things just like to
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  get and it can become frustrating.
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  It can become very overwhelming and very frustrating.
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  But that is not all what's happening.
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  Both autism and ADHD are seeking something called dopamine.
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  Now, dopamine is a like a hormone or a chemical in the
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  brain that gets released when you achieve something that gives
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  you a sense of happiness or completion, like eating a good
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  meal or, you know, maybe it's intercourse or maybe it's doing
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  something really fun like playing a game.
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  Those things give you dopamine hit, kind of like how somebody
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  who is addicted to something like a substance could get a
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  dopamine hit every time they have it, which is why they kind
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  of are addicted. Which is also another causing
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  factor that people who are on the autism spectrum or have ADHD
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  may become addicted to substances like alcohol and
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  types of drugs or even, you know, sex in some places or even
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  pornographic imagery. Because those things give you
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  instant dopamine satisfaction and can cause this kind of
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  Moorish war, war, war, war, because you're getting this
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  constant feed of dopamine, which is what we're all chasing when
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  we have ADHD and autism. But that's all the only things
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  that we can do. We can actually use this for
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  good stuff. And you can also issues together
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  to create a more harmonious living with autism and ADHD.
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  So autism and ADHD can work together very, very well.
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  And how does this work? Because there is this love for
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  routine in autism and a love of spontaneity within ADHD.
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  It's kind of like having two people wanting to be satisfied
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  at the same time and they have different needs.
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  Like one person wants to have steak, the other wants to have
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  vegetables. How are you supposed to do this?
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  Well, there is a common denominator through all of this.
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  Autism always wants to learn. So my artistic brain is
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  constantly wanting to learn, needs to learn, and needs to
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  digest information. When I'm not digesting
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  information, when I'm not learning, I actually get really
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  depressed and upset. So I constantly have to be
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  educating myself in something. It could be anything, but it's
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  usually around my topic of interest, like social media
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  marketing or chemistry or Star Trek and stuff like that.
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  Like I just have to learn those things.
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  So I take courses and I listen to audio books.
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  Now to really impact this, I have to be really focusing on
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  the audio book or the OR, you know, the program I'm listening
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  to. I have to really focus on it.
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  But that's really difficult because I have ADHD and my ADHD
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  wants me to run about, I've got super hyperactivity.
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  I want to run over here, run over there, do this, bounce off
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  the walls and scream and do all these kind of crazy things so
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  you can see how this conflict happens.
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  Now I'm trying to focus on an audiobook.
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  Yeah, my brain won't allow me to do it because my body is willing
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  to do all this kind of stuff. So I married the two together,
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  and this is my secret weapon. I go running once every other
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  day, as much as I can in a week. And when I'm running, I'm
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  listening to audiobooks. And what happens is something
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  quite magical. I impact my body with tactile
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  feedback because I'm running and I'm getting this tactile
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  feedback which is giving me appropriate session.
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  It's giving me deep muscle proprioception wake up, which it
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  means that my sensory needs will be lower because of this
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  proprioception kind of activation.
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  I'm getting sensory feedback through my legs, my arms and my
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  chest and I'll go all this stuff, but what's happening is
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  my ADHD kind of wanting to run and be hyperactive is being
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  sorted out because I'm outside running them.
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  I'm getting those dopamine hits from actually running on the
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  street. The other thing is that the
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  tactile feedback is reinforcing the focus of the thing I'm
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  listening. When I'm listening to
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  audiobooks, that feedback is really just ingrain that in my
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  brain. So I focus best when I'm
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  running, I listen best when I'm working out.
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  I can retain more information when I'm running or doing
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  something that's giving me tactile feedback.
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  This is actually the way in which I wrote my book.
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  Now, recently, guys, I wrote a book called Autism for Adults,
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  which is a best seller in the United States, Canada, and the
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  UK, and it got to #1 within a couple of hours, which I was
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  super awesomely happy about. Thank you so much for buying the
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  book. If you're interested in checking
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  out the book, you can go to autismforadults.com.
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  Now, this book was written in two weeks.
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  How did I do it? Explain in two seconds guys.
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  Before we move on to the video, I just want to say that I've
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  come across the most amazing app that's going to come to autism
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  right now. This app is called Collage.
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  Now this is kind of a community, dating, relationship, friendship
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  kind of app. It's a lot better than some of
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  the other rubbish that's been out before.
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  This app is absolutely groundbreaking.
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  I think it's just amazing. Now.
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  Currently, there's a waiting list.
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  If you can jump on that waiting list and you're watching this
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  video, then do it right now. The link is in the description
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  down below and a comment below this video.
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  Go to the card collection website right now and sign up
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  for the waiting list or by the time you watch this video
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  actually might be out so you can just go and download the app
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  straightaway. It's absolutely amazing.
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  I think this on its own is going to break the mold between
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  creating community autism, relationships and friendships.
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  But more than anything, this is very much a verified platform,
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  which is very secure because you don't want some creepy weirdos
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  kind of going on and downloading an app.
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  So the verification and the vetting process is very strict
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  and very secure. This apps amazing and it's a
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  safe place for autistic people to find relationships with
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  friends and also potential intimate relationships.
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  So definitely check out college app right now.
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  The link is down below. Guys, you won't be disappointed.
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  OK, roll the video now. How did I write my book?
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  Within two weeks? This is exactly how I did it.
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  I picked up my phone. I got on my treadmill because I
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  have a treadmill in my my home gym.
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  And then I was running on the treadmill, which is giving me
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  that kind of, you know, dopamine here that tax our feedback.
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  And I did a speech to text dictation on my iPhone.
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  So I was speaking my iPhone was writing it all out.
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  And I did that one hour for eight days in a row and I
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  managed to compile all the bits I want to do my book.
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  Then I dumped all of the text into an AI app called Grammarly
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  and then that app kind of like sorted it out and then I was
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  able to pass that over to my publishers.
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  So it is possible to write a book in two weeks if you know
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  how to do it. Now to me this is a problem
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  solution issue because I also have dyslexia.
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  So sitting down and writing a book obviously is difficult for
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  my hyperactivity and it will also be difficult for me
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  spelling wise. I'm actually typing wise or
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  writing wise, so to speak to my phone was just a problem solving
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  solution, which is absolutely amazing.
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  But the most interesting thing was that I was really able to
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  focus because I was running, I was getting tactile feedback.
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  I was hyper focusing on my book and the story that I was writing
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  at that time about the things that I wanted to put in the
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  book. Now this is absolutely amazing.
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  You can try this with anything. If you want to focus more on
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  something, I highly suggest walking around your house doing
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  pushups or listening to a book. Maybe walking whilst reading a
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  book, like pacing up and down your room.
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  You could even try something like putting on an audio book
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  loud and even boxing. You could do anything as long as
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  you're getting tactile feedback from the room around you, from
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  the the space that you're in. If you're reading tactile
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  feedback, if you're getting physical feedback to your body
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  whilst focusing on something, you're going to A retain
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  information a little better, but B be able to focus on it a
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  little better. This is kind of like an
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  experiment that I could prove to you that if somebody said, Hey,
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  how are you doing? And they just spoke it to you,
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  it wouldn't be as impactful as if they slapped you on the
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  shoulder and were like, Hey, how are you doing?
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  You'd really feel that and you'd really understand what it said,
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  Hey, how you doing? Because they've married two
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  things together, audio and physiological together.
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  So that is how this works. This is my secret weapon.
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  I've locked and loaded it. I use it absolutely everything.
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  And I want to know if you try it.
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  So if you go out and try this, drop in a comment down below.
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  But I'd also like to know, do you have ADHD and autism or are
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  you just one or the other? Drop me a comment down below, I
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  really want to know. This video was helpful guys.
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  Please like it. Share this video on social media
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  and TuneIn for my other videos. All right, Peace.
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  OK guys, see you in the next one.
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  Peace.