Why High-Performers Restart Instead of Compound
I’ve been studying a behavioral pattern I see in capable, ambitious people.
They don’t usually quit.
They restart.
They build a system, execute for several days, miss once, then redesign everything instead of continuing.
I call it the Continuity Collapse Pattern.
The core idea:
Most productivity systems are built for ideal conditions. Real life includes emotional variance and activation cost. When a miss is interpreted as identity failure, restart becomes the default response.
The solution isn’t more motivation. It’s designing systems around return speed instead of streak length.
Full breakdown here:
https://spryexecutiveos.com/continuity-collapse-pattern/ Sounds like you’re describing ADHD symptoms, in my experience gobblygookmadumasumo This text looks like it was written by AI. But i have every reason to believe that it wasn't. Is it just me, or many people got into habit of writing in "ChatGPT-style" simply because talking to ChatGPT is how they spend most of their time? I've noticed this too. It might be a chicken-or-the-egg thing though. I think LLMs learned this sort of "punchy" writing style from the blogs of software developer who blog and from Linkedin posts. It gets RHLFed into them. I have had arguments about it with GPT-based Copilot. I had to write a difficult paragraph and did go back and forth with it for advice but used at most a half-sentence from it, GPTZero thinks the paragraph is human written. I’d tell it “if I used that people would say that you wrote it” and it would say that it thinks it writes better than most people.