What problem does it solve? Doctoral learners often stall on dissertation work without understanding why, and generic advice like "just start writing" fails because it ignores the underlying barrier. This Skill diagnoses the specific root cause of avoidance — ambiguity, fear, overwhelm, perfectionism, or disconnection — and prescribes a targeted, low-friction action that removes that exact barrier. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Structured Diagnostic Interview: Guides the learner through targeted questions to identify the avoidance behavior and classify its root cause among five categories. - Cause-Specific Prescriptions: Maps each diagnosis to a concrete intervention, such as co-writing the next sentence for ambiguity, lowering the stakes for perfectionism, or decomposing the task for overwhelm. - Time-Bound Commitment: Ends every session with one specific, undeniable action plus an obstacle-removal step and a check-in prompt. - Use Case: A doctoral candidate has avoided writing Chapter 3 for two weeks. The Skill identifies overwhelm as the cause, shrinks the task to one paragraph of the methodology justification, and secures a 15-minute commitment to write it. ## Quick Start Tell the assistant you have been avoiding a specific dissertation task and ask it to run a procrastination audit to find out why and what to do next.
