The Quit-or-Stay Trap
Swinging between leaving and staying feels like wrestling with the decision -- but the swing itself discharges the pressure so you never have to choose. The way out is one small irreversible move toward a pole.

Swinging between leaving and staying feels like wrestling with the decision -- but the swing itself discharges the pressure so you never have to choose. The way out is one small irreversible move toward a pole.

Converting every decision into a research project, because gathering feels like progress and deciding feels like risk -- the favorite loop of evidence-literate people. Name the threshold before you start.

Capable people don't stall from a lack of ability or information -- they're caught in a loop that fires below thought and disguises itself as productivity. The complete answer, and the way out.

The most respectable hiding place a capable person will find: brilliant work that exists to keep one decision waiting. Excellence as a disguise.