Spotting Task Paralysis

A short Micro-Lab on one Loop. You’ll learn to spot Task Paralysis, map it and find a way through, one module at a time.

Micro-Lab

One short sitting

Led by Evan

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Course overview

One Loop, one point at a time.

Three short modules

A notes page for your own words

A clear takeaway at the end of each one

Task Paralysis is the Loop where you know what needs doing and still can’t start. The form stays open in a tab. The email stays unanswered. It isn’t laziness, and it has a name.

This Micro-Lab takes Task Paralysis through all three Levels: Spot, Map and Navigate. Each module makes one point and ends with a clear takeaway, so you can finish it in one sitting and come back to it whenever you like.

You’re here when

You can point to one time it happened, describe it in your own words, and tell it apart from a pattern that looks similar.

Audience

Who this course is for

This is for you if

A task has sat open in a tab, a drawer or your head for days.

You can’t always tell stuck from tired, bored or busy.

You want a name for the pattern before you try to change it.

You’d rather finish one short lesson than start a long course.

Good to know

You don’t need to know why it happens or how to stop it.

There are no scores and no leaderboard.

A Level reached is kept. A rough week doesn’t undo it.

Come back to any lesson whenever you like.

Course modules

Spot, Map, Navigate.

Spot

Learn what Task Paralysis looks like from the inside, and how to tell it apart from tiredness, boredom and avoidance. Hindsight counts.

Learn what Task Paralysis looks like from the inside, and how to tell it apart from tiredness, boredom and avoidance.

It happened, and it isn’t laziness.

Map

Write down what started it, what kept it going and where it showed up. Use the notes page to capture one moment in your own words.

One moment, written down, in your words.

Navigate

Try one move from your map on a real day and see what happens. When it doesn’t work, your map helps you see why.

A move that works more often than not.

Materials

A blank page. That’s it.

Almost always, all you need is a blank document on your computer, or a pen and paper. If a module needs anything else, it says so at the start.

A blank document on your computer

Or a pen and paper

Still mapping. Follow along.

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