Executive Dysfunction ≠ Laziness

When your brain’s planning systems go offline, willpower alone won’t bring them back

“Just do it” doesn’t work when your executive functions are offline.

I’ve heard countless people say this advice doesn’t work for them. Push through. Stop overthinking. Just start. And for years, many believed their inability to follow it meant something was wrong with them. Turns out, there was something happening in their brains that had nothing to do …