For example, when I tidy up the house, my task isn't to tidy up the house. My task is to take this one object and put it where it belongs. Then I start on another task until I'm out of time or tasks.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 10 months ago

The best thing I ever learned to help with cleaning is that no matter the size of the mess, rooms only have 5 things in them:

Trash
Laundry
Dishes
Things with a place
Things without a place

If you clean one category at a time it's a lot less overwhelming. Shout out to the book How to Keep House While Drowning for more tips like that, it's written specifically for neurodivergent people.

[–] MisterMcBolt@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Right, but then I get overwhelmed with this huge list of tasks!

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You don't have a huge list of tasks. You have a single task, then you find another single task.

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I like to explain it as function currying to computer savvy folks... your first task is to do the first chunk, your second and only remaining task is to create a new task to do next.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currying

Hack ~~the Planet~~ your Brain!

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Uncurrying is the dual transformation to currying, and can be seen as a form of defunctionalization. It takes a function f whose return value is another function g, and yields a new function f' that takes as parameters the arguments for both f and g, and returns, as a result, the application of f and subsequently, g, to those arguments. The process can be iterated.

none of these words are in the bible

[–] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Oh, sorry, that's from the book of Mormon.