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ADHD at Work: Understanding the Hidden Friction

8 Modules
~115 min total
100% Free

Why professional life with other humans creates friction that feels disproportionate to the actual work. Understanding without prescribing.

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1

The Professional Inconsistency Problem

Why your performance varies in ways you cannot predict. Understanding state-dependent executive function and the competence paradox.

15 min
2

Being Perceived: Rejection Sensitivity at Work

Why feedback and social evaluation feel threatening. The neuroscience behind disproportionate emotional responses to criticism.

15 min
3

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.

15 min
4

Clients, Deadlines, and the Avoidance Spiral

How shame and avoidance create self-fulfilling prophecies. The predictable phases of delay, shame, and panic.

15 min
5

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.

15 min
6

Shame, Identity, and the Professional Self

How accumulated shame becomes identity. The difference between guilt and shame, and why character interpretations trap you.

15 min
7

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.

15 min
8

What Understanding Changes

What clarity gives you, even without action. How mechanism replaces mystery and opens space for different responses.

10 min