{"id":7529,"date":"2021-05-26T02:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7529"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:35:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:35:01","slug":"writers-adhd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7529","title":{"rendered":"WRITER&#8217;S ADHD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since January 1st, I haven&#8217;t experienced any &#8220;writer&#8217;s block&#8221; like I anticipated. If anything, I seem to have writer&#8217;s ADHD when it comes to these daily blog posts &#8211; and I don&#8217;t know if that is a good thing or a bad thing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes I spend 2 or 3 evenings exploring a single topic, but mostly I hop from one topic to the next. Sometimes I start on a topic thinking &#8220;an entire book could be written on this!&#8221; and then I get distracted the very next night and move on.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have two more days of school and then a few months of freedom. It remains to be seen if more time will equal deeper dives.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I hope to find the time and energy to study &#8211; and write about &#8211; what the Bible teaches regarding gossip, slander, grumbling, self-righteousness, repentance, the Kingdom, eternal life, and hell, among other things.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would also like to explore a biblical perspective on cognitive biases, metaphysics, and metacognition. And I realize that all of that sounds like &#8220;heady&#8221; stuff, but I think a biblical understanding of these things could be profoundly practical.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And I&#8217;m only using the fancy, technical terms because they exist and make me sound smart:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Cognitive biases = how the human brain is wired, for better or worse.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Metaphysics = the nature of reality and how in touch with the deepest aspects of reality we are.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Metacognition = thinking about how we think.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the meantime &#8230; Here&#8217;s to the last two days of the school year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since January 1st, I haven&#8217;t experienced any &#8220;writer&#8217;s block&#8221; like I anticipated. If anything, I seem to have writer&#8217;s ADHD when it comes to these daily blog posts &#8211; and I don&#8217;t know if that is a good thing or a bad thing.\u00a0 Sometimes I spend 2 or 3 evenings exploring a single topic, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7529"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7530,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7529\/revisions\/7530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}