For you

Finding your own conditions.

No score, no type, no result page. These are the questions I ask myself, written down so you can sit with them. A week will not prove anything, and I would rather say that than sell you something. It is long enough to give you a record of what actually happened, which is more than you have now.

The full version is a month of noticing — a self-observation guide, free, making no diagnostic claims. Three questions to start with.

• Where were you when your last unusually good idea arrived, and what happened in the day before it?
• What environment reliably makes you worse at something you are normally good at?
• What have you been told to work on that turns out to be useful somewhere else?

Two of the questions above use words with no fixed meaning, deliberately. Why that matters, and when it breaks.

More questions, sorted by the part of life they turn up in, are on the topics page.

Reading for this

Essays for this are grouped on the essays page, with a route that starts from scratch.