The behaviours you have tried hardest to fix are usually the ones that worked. Eight lessons on protection mechanisms, what each one buys, and what it quietly costs.
The things people praise you for may be the things that are exhausting you. This course takes that seriously.
The over-preparation, the third revision, the reluctance to hand anything over, the pleasant agreement you did not quite mean: each of these gets treated as a small defect that a bit more discipline should have sorted out by now. Almost none of them are defects. Each was built in response to something specific, each still works, and each now runs at a cost that appears on nobody's ledger, because the output keeps arriving on time.
This course reads those behaviours as cover you took out a long time ago and never cancelled. Across eight short lessons it sets out four common shapes, one at a time: the one that buys certainty in advance, the one that refuses the handover, the one that keeps a room comfortable, and the one that lowers the claim before anybody sees the work. Each shape is described in the world, in ordinary working situations, with what it buys and what it charges. None of them is assigned to you, and there is no assessment anywhere in the course that returns a type, a label or a result.
Along the way it looks at where an exacting standard actually came from, and why the person who installed it is frequently no longer in the room. It is honest about the one shape that has genuine evidence behind it, and about the studies that have been widely over-claimed elsewhere.
It finishes with three sentences you write yourself: what one mechanism does, what it keeps from happening, and what it has cost in hours, deferrals and conversations avoided. No plan follows, and none is offered. Deciding what stays is separate work, and this course stops before it.
Nothing here assumes any previous course, and nothing here is a diagnosis.