Switch On
Subtitle: A User's Guide to Your Mind's Drive Engine
Publisher: Nikesh Lagun
Published: 2025/06/01
Language: eng
Format: ebook
Number of pages: 69
ISBN-13: 9798290407432
Copyright date: 2025/06/01
First sentence: Millions of people struggle every day with procrastination, burnout, and a frustrating sense of being “stuck.”
Description: Are you stuck, burned out, or overwhelmed no matter how motivated you feel?

In Switch On: A User’s Guide to Your Mind’s Drive Engine, independent researcher Nikesh Lagun introduces a groundbreaking new framework to help you reclaim your ability to act. Built on Cognitive Drive Architecture (CDA), this handbook explains why traditional productivity hacks often fail and how a deeper, structural understanding of your mind’s “Drive Engine” can transform your habits for good.

Discover the six key variables of Lagunian Dynamics (Primode, CAP, Flexion, Anchory, Grain, and Slip) and learn how they work together to power your efforts. Through clear explanations, relatable examples, and simple exercises, you’ll learn to diagnose what stalls you and how to fix it. Plus, explore practical tools like the Cognitive Thermostat Theory for reigniting your focus and the Latent Task Architecture for clearing hidden mental clutter.

Whether you struggle with procrastination, distraction, or low motivation, Switch On offers a compassionate, scientifically informed roadmap to tune, repair, and restart your personal Drive Engine whenever you choose.

You are not lazy. You are not broken. You are working with a system, and you can switch it on.
Notes: This handbook introduces Cognitive Drive Architecture (CDA), a proposed field within cognitive psychology that studies how mental effort is initiated, sustained, or disrupted. By modeling six interacting variables through Lagunian Dynamics, it explains why motivation alone often fails and how procrastination, burnout, and task avoidance arise from deeper system-level misalignments. Supported by Cognitive Thermostat Theory and Latent Task Architecture, the book offers practical tools, relatable examples, and guided exercises to help readers repair and maintain their Drive system. It reframes stuckness and overwhelm as structural, fixable challenges rather than personal flaws, providing a compassionate, science-based path to more sustainable action.
Table of contents: label: Acknowledgments
title: 4; label: Preface
title: 6; label: Introduction
title: 8; label: 1. What is Cognitive Drive?
title: 11; label: 2. The Basics of Drive (Lagunian Dynamics)
title: 21; label: 3. How Drive Starts (The Cognitive Thermostat Theory)
title: 30; label: 4. How Drive Fails (The Forces That Block You)
title: 39; label: 5. How Latent Tasks Hijack You (The Latent Task Architecture)
title: 47; label: 6. The Drive Recovery Toolkit
title: 53; label: References
title: 59; label: Glossary of Key Terms
title: 63; label: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
title: 66; label: Final Words to the Reader
title: 67