For You

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?

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

Want a set built for your life? The generic version works. A version built around your actual week works better, and building them is part of this project. Email leahgerber@outlook.com with the shape of your weeks and what you can actually change, and I will draft your questions. Free, no diagnosis, no score. Your notes stay yours unless you decide to share them, or what you found, with me.

Reading for this

Essays about your own conditions.

Same brain, different day. The first one. Why your output swings when your abilities have not changed.
Do you have better ideas after sleep, or after time away, or something else? I believed sleep was doing it for years. One study says I had the wrong variable.
How good is the evidence that sleeping on a problem helps? Before you build a habit on it, here is what the famous study actually showed.
You are a poor judge of how much you vary. Why asking yourself how consistent you are will not work, and what to do instead.
What does it mean when they say a trait is 50 percent genetic? Read this before you pay anyone to tell you who you are from your saliva.
Your age, your DNA. What do you do about the things you cannot change? What you settle about yourself at 30 may not hold at 50.
Could a smell be shaping your work without you noticing? Some conditions never reach the part of you that could report them.