ADHD and the Urgent/Important Matrix

ADHD and Important Matrix.

• The concept of emergency in Important Matrix is difficult with ADHD in the first place.
• Processes involving others are more urgent, even if the time to deadline is the same.
• Because it is difficult to predict “how much time others will spend

autis33 I’ve been recommended a priority matrix by someone with ADHD, but I don’t understand what is and isn’t urgent. I don’t know what’s important or not important, and I’m stuck. autis33 I think this matrix situation is unsuitable because it’s common for people to say “I don’t think what others think is important is important”. Simple.

1. High urgency ②Low urgency I feel like these two areas are all we need. autis33 I don’t know the difference between “less urgent but important” and “urgent but not important”. I think I’m going to get head tired from this and sleep for a few hours lol.

yama1269 I thought the same thing a long time ago. I asked a friend who taught me and he said, “It’s easier to understand if you think about whether or not there are people involved. Now it comes in handy.

autis33: I’ve been recommended a priority matrix by someone with ADHD, but I don’t understand what’s urgent and what’s not. I don’t know what’s important or not important, and I’m stuck. hirakata1976 This is true. There are quite a few people, especially those who confuse ‘urgent’ with ‘important’, regardless of whether they have a disability or not.

• I don’t agree with this diagram.
  • The person who drew this diagram may also be ""someone who confuses ‘urgent’ with ‘important’”.

nishio My wife coached me on this too. I didn’t understand at the time that it takes many times longer than a single person’s estimate of the work because other people don’t move at their own convenience or don’t communicate what they think.

• Tip: This is not about “Important Matrix”.
  • I’m with you on “it’s easier to understand when you think about whether or not someone is involved.”
  • Processes involving other people have much less “time left” than physical deadlines because the other person’s part of the process does not work the way you want it to.
    • I didn’t understand this until my wife taught me.
    • This doesn’t feel like ADHD, it’s more like I have a hard time imagining other people living on a different time scale than I do.
  • Processes involving others require a high estimate of urgency because of the short “time remaining” and unpredictability
  • In the first place, in the “Important Matrix,” all jobs with deadlines are in the first area of “Urgent/Important,” so the question of “which to start when there are multiple jobs with deadlines” is outside the scope of the matrix.
    • - Figure from Seven Habits p. 215
    • Processes involving others are more urgent and should be given top priority when there are multiple tasks in the first area

zacky1972 I have a slightly different opinion. I can see the problem if you refer to the third habit of the 7 Habits.

• The “deadline-keeping” research style that should be taken by the type of researcher who can concentrate on whatever interests him at the moment - Susumu Yamazaki Laboratory, ZACKY’s Laboratory

nishio I read your blog post and I don’t particularly disagree with it, so I think we are just expressing the same thing differently. I am of the opinion that it is important to do the following

Work requests that have a grace period before the deadline at the time of initial notification… means that anything that needs to be done by someone else will be done by someone else as soon as possible. zacky1972 Not only there, but the most important point is to devote as much time as possible to non-urgent, important work! nishio That’s just what the 7 habits say, which is not interesting to me because there is no new information for me. The original thread is more developed and interesting.

uuddaa Ladies and gentlemen who are design consultants, it would be fun to make a habit of naming your axes! (Or rather, you should name it. (Or so I’m told!).

For example, this is. Vertical: Low and Affected Object are correlated. Side: Deadline for something So the person who created this 2x2 is concerned about,

Disturbance to others and so on, Don’t keep others waiting and Don’t put yourself first.

and other messages are recalled.

So why do the producers care about “inconveniencing others”?

I can keep thinking like that!

If you name an axis, why are those two axes important in the first place? Why are those two axes important in the first place, and why not other axes? It is useful to look at things from the perspective of “why are those two axes important in the first place, and why not other axes?

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