• snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
    281·
    3 months ago

    Why isn’t the phone opening the app his finger is on?

    Is the no circle around him something that exists as a physical object in his world?

    Why is his tie outside of the no circle? Is he falling through it?

    What is up with the dead fish stare? Does he have feelings? I know he is smiling, but it looks like he is pretending to be happy. Why is he happy to be told not to be doing the thing he is apparently doing?

    What is on the sign behind him that is obscured by the phone?

    What is with the S on his shirt? Is he a discount superman?

    Aaaaggghhhh!

  • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    3 months ago

    I sometimes get some amusement with people with this attitude. Just play the ‘How’ game.

    Basically, ask them, as earnestly as possible, HOW do you focus? You’ll likely get some rote answer, that’s when you start digging. Acknowledge the obvious bit and drill into the difficult bit. They will quickly be left stuttering with a “you just do it” type response. See how long you can keep it going.

    The more honest, earnest and even slightly desperate you are, the funnier it becomes. They just told you they have the secret to fix your life, but now won’t share it. WHY won’t they share?!?

    • Pfeffy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

      Just play the ‘How’ game.

      I’ll bite.

      Basically, ask them, as earnestly as possible, HOW do you focus?

      I make coffee and then I remove distractions. Then I spend about 30 minutes forcing myself to do whatever task until it no longer is forced. I have specifically associated my office with focus and concentration on tasks. I do not look at social media or play YouTube or anything else in that room ever.

      They will quickly be left stuttering with a “you just do it” type response. See how long you can keep it going.

      I’m excited to see how you do this. Go ahead and demonstrate.

      They just told you they have the secret to fix your life, but now won’t share it. WHY won’t they share?!?

      Well I just shared. That method let me get off of Vyvanse. People have always had ADHD and they have figured out how to live with it forever. But sure, go ahead and pretend like your life is somehow ruined.

      • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        3 months ago

        Then I spend about 30 minutes forcing myself to do whatever task until it no longer is forced.

        Ok, HOW do you “force yourself”? I can do it for tightly aligned tasks, for a short period, but burn out rapidly. Back at university, I managed to induce heart arrhythmia pushing myself this way.

        It also doesn’t help with the initiator issue. HOW do you get yourself moving in the first place? I can reliably do it a couple of times a day, but day to day life needs more than that for basic maintenance.

        Oh, and don’t get me wrong, I’m functional, but it runs me at my mental limit all the time. Parenting pushed that to the next level. I’m permanently riding the knife edge of burnout.

        • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          (1 week without a response) Well played 🤭

          There ya go. I’m glad they could “just force themselves” and I REALLY do think tying together tasks, with environment, with timing, etc… really is key, but that’s the worst part of it, that intangible “something” that sparks your brain into “just doing the thing and getting it over with.”

          Why do we have it sometimes and not others? Where can we get it when it’s missing? Do we have to panic ourselves into EVERY task?

          At some point it’s just really hard constantly researching how to esoterically “program yourself” when the results will be wildly inconsistent on the best of days and all the normie books on productivity are like “Have you turned off your phone and tried making a list??? 😮👉🗒️ 😱”

          … And then you look up the author and they’re some corporate manager who just discovered the secrets to personal mastery hired 2 personal assistants and now they’re doing just fine. “And you can too!”

  • Lad@reddthat.com
    English
    22·
    3 months ago

    Depression sufferer? Just cheer up. Anxiety sufferer? Just relax.

      • shneancy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        yeah but, from a design perspective try to analyse it

        a super man knock off (good) is giving you a phone (neutral) but he’s crossed off (bad) and has earphones hanging on his neck (why) and there’s a “don’t be distracted” sign (good) but again the superman knockoff is giving you a phone, why is the superhero doing a bad thing here?

        the visual language is all over the place. A positive mascot doesn’t fit at all here. This should be a villain offering you the phone & should colour coded appropriately. The Evil Distraction Man shouldn’t look like a superhero, it deeply muddles the intended message

        PSA posters are not really a place for trying to subvert audience’s expectations of superman knock off’s moral standing

  • Glowstick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    3 months ago

    I just had a related experience. I’ve been out of a medication for a bunch of days, and today i finally was able to get myself to call the doctors office to ask for a refill. The receptionist in a tone told me “ok but you shouldn’t wait till you’re out of meds to ask for a refill, you should call in the refill when you’re down to 5 pills left.” Arg. As if needing to call in a refill hadn’t been nagging on my mind daily for a month.

    TBF she didn’t know i have adhd, but still. It took a lot of restraint to just tell her “ok” instead of giving her a long explanation of the struggles i deal with.

  • Jessica@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    Never mind the fact that iPhones haven’t had a silver trim like that since the iPhone 3GS in 2009, yet the icons are not skeuomorphic indicative of a much newer version of iOS.

  • jaycifer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    3 months ago

    Man, I loathe this guy. There’s a sign of him at my work lunch area with some rhyme about “something something, avoid a slip up” and I’m just thinking “yeah yeah, whatever Glasses Office Man! Why are you targeting my demographic specifically?”