{"id":4627,"date":"2021-10-08T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/?p=4627"},"modified":"2021-10-08T16:37:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T20:37:32","slug":"executive-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/2021\/10\/08\/executive-function\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive Function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I\u2019ve been thinking about executive function<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">And dysfunction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">I\u2019m taking cognitive psych this semester, can you tell?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">We recently covered ADHD in relation to executive dysfunction and it made me think about myself and others in the program.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Those with executive dysfunction struggle with working memory, making it difficult to recall \u201cwhat I\u2019m supposed to be doing right now\u201d and meaning I already forgot I have a planner I can check. Which is actually something I should do right now. See? The distractibility of it all. (I also know I forgot to write anything in said planner.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Back to the subject at hand, executive dysfunction makes graduate programs a delightful struggle. One of my favorite parts of ADHD is that I\u2019m great at finishing relatively complex tasks quicker than most. Things like math, apparently. One of my not so favorite parts is that I\u2019ve found it doesn\u2019t do the same thing with designing in an aesthetically appealing manner. If anything the design ends up accidentally channeling my chaotic (some would say divergent) thinking structure and looking like alphabet soup to others. Good soup\u2026to me.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">There is no purpose. This is more soup.<\/span><\/p><p><span class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4628 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/6D550D3F-8013-4C45-AD14-0C9F95D9BD6F.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2048\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m thinking about executive function.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":4628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[347,345],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-time-flies","category-your-guess","entry-card--square"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/6D550D3F-8013-4C45-AD14-0C9F95D9BD6F.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p86O3z-1cD","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4631,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4627\/revisions\/4631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/academics.design.ncsu.edu\/yesand\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}