Understanding the resisting mind.
Jonathan Northwood studies cognitive dismantling, procrastination, and how habits are made and broken.
Projects
Practical tools, built on the method.
Procrastitype
Find out what type of procrastinator you are.
A diagnostic tool that maps your procrastination profile to a recognised type, with targeted, evidence-informed strategies for each.
Cognitive Dismantling
Break any habit by taking it apart, step by step.
A structured, step-by-step method for breaking any habit by taking it apart — trigger by trigger, loop by loop.
Areas of expertise
Expert on procrastination .
Cognitive dismantling. A systematic method for breaking any habit by taking it apart step by step — identifying its triggers, rewards, and feedback loops, and disassembling each in turn.
Procrastination. Why we avoid, when avoidance becomes a pattern, and how to interrupt the cycle at its source rather than manage its symptoms.
Making and breaking habits. The underlying structure of habit formation — how habits are built, how they are broken, and how the two processes inform one another.
Coming soon
Cognitive Construction
Build habits that last by reversing cognitive dismantling. Where dismantling disassembles a habit into its parts, construction assembles one from the ground up — designed to endure because it is built on the same mechanics, in reverse.