ADHD at Work: Understanding the Hidden Friction
Why professional life with other humans creates friction that feels disproportionate to the actual work. Understanding without prescribing.
Start Module 1The Professional Inconsistency Problem
Why your performance varies in ways you cannot predict. Understanding state-dependent executive function and the competence paradox.
Being Perceived: Rejection Sensitivity at Work
Why feedback and social evaluation feel threatening. The neuroscience behind disproportionate emotional responses to criticism.
Delegation, Control, and the Tacit Knowledge Trap
Why handing off work is harder than doing it yourself. The working memory bottleneck and tacit knowledge problem.
Clients, Deadlines, and the Avoidance Spiral
How shame and avoidance create self-fulfilling prophecies. The predictable phases of delay, shame, and panic.
Boundaries, Overcommitment, and the Regulatory Yes
Why you agree to things you don't want to agree to. The impulsive yes, working memory failure, and social debt psychology.
Shame, Identity, and the Professional Self
How accumulated shame becomes identity. The difference between guilt and shame, and why character interpretations trap you.
Stability, Safety, and Why Systems Actually Fail
The hidden maintenance burden that kills every system. Why complexity creep and all-or-nothing thinking accelerate decay.
What Understanding Changes
What clarity gives you, even without action. How mechanism replaces mystery and opens space for different responses.