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I was in the middle of something in another room and it occurred to me that this familiar expression could be adapted for ADHD: A watched pot never catches fire. Good reminder to exercise a little extra caution in the everyday tasks that get boring but are still dangerous if you get complacent. Driving, cooking, poking around in a running computer with screwdriver even though you know you should shut it off, that sort of thing.

Now if you'll excuse me, I should get back to cooking breakfast before the "food is done" alarms start going off throughout the building.

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[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I see some results for that and, as it turns out, a similar version that I've probably heard before but forgotten: "A watched pot never boils but an unwatched pot boils over".

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