From scrolling every 8 minutes to his first deep work block in months.
14 years building systems that never crash. Couldn't hold focus for 10 minutes without grabbing his phone.
Marek was a senior engineer. Sharp mind. Serious career. But his attention was gone. Scroll, check, scroll again, every 8 minutes. He was ashamed to admit it.
His brain wasn't broken. It was running an automatic escape pattern he couldn't override. Not laziness. His nervous system doing exactly what overwhelmed nervous systems do.
We worked together for 5 days, just the two of us. I looked at the whole picture: his body, his stress patterns, his nervous system response. Not one tool, not one method. Whatever the root cause needed.
By Day 5: caught the urge in under 10 seconds
That same week: delivered a project review he'd avoided for 3 weeks
For the first time in months: an uninterrupted deep work block