Study yourself like a subject. Your patterns will show up on every test life gives you.

You carry the same handful of habits into every situation, and because you live inside them they are nearly invisible. The same conditions make you quit, the same ones make you sharp, and both repeat without you catching the pattern. Treating it as something to observe rather than something to feel puts a little distance in. From there it is just information.

Watch for one repeat this week: the hour you fade, the kind of person you get defensive around, what you do right before you put something off. Write it down without judging it. Knowing the pattern is most of the way to working around it.