Why You Can’t Hand It Off: The Over-Function Pattern
- Aug 11
- 1 min read
Someone offers to take work off your plate, and your whole system says no. It isn’t perfectionism and it isn’t control — it’s resolution: you see the details first, and handing work off means paying a translation tax your wiring prices higher than the task itself. “Faster to do it myself” is often literally true. Once.
You’ve been paying that once every week for years. The fix isn’t willpower — pick one recurring task and build the translation one time. Infrastructure, not heroics.
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