Skip to content
Mark Worster

Free diagnostic

The Capacity Ceiling Diagnostic

A personal read, not a group one: where vigilance, recovery, delegation, and your sense of enough are already under strain. Twelve questions, about three minutes.

Sizing this up for your forum or team instead? See The Catalyst.

Vigilance

How often does your body stay on high alert long after a work problem is already resolved?
How often do you check email or Slack outside work hours, just in case?
How often does guilt show up when you're not producing something?

Recovery

How often does a demanding week bleed into the next one without you feeling caught up?
How often do you reach for your phone rather than sit with ten quiet minutes?
How often does your mind start working before your eyes are even open?

Delegation

How often do you redo work someone else has already finished, because it's faster if you just do it?
How often do you step in or check in on a decision your team already made differently than you would have?
How often does just imagining a week fully unreachable bring on a physical stress reaction: tight chest, racing thoughts?

Hollow achievement

How often does the satisfaction from a major win fade within days, if not hours?
How often are you already planning the next thing before the last win has even landed?
How often is your bar for "enough" set by someone else's voice rather than your own?

Enter your email and I'll send the full map: all four dimensions, the pattern underneath your highest score, and one experiment to interrupt it.

The answer was never on the other side of more effort.

If the diagnostic named something real, The Passage is where the private work happens.

Apply for The Passage