There are lots (lots!) of approaches, ones that work/don't work for different people. It's a journey, yours alone! Enjoy the fact that you're going to get to kn

There are lots (lots!) of approaches, ones that work/don't work for different people. It's a journey, yours alone! Enjoy the fact that you're going to get to know yourself, and accept surprises and celebrate both wins and disappointments. What comes to mind from reading your description that I don't see suggested in comments are two points: * very (very) often people, especially younger, have very academic/theoretical mental models of themselves that don't align with their behavior and make change and action hard. The categories you describe make me think of this. This may be you forcing a framework on your behavior that simply doesn't work. Think- is this categorization model the most important thing? What do I really want? * for most people, what they want is behavior change. To have behaved more in a way more of the time, less of another way more of the time. That framing can still be too abstract and intellectual. Behavior is very literal. Very present. To make use of your intellectual ability, try breaking down the more abstract goals to more concrete actions. Keep generating/enumerating slices of smaller and smaller behaviors that seem to get you to your goal. Do so in writing, because writing is a way of communicating with yourself that can be suggestive, and motivating. Maybe you will find yourself starting to take some of those small actions, to be doing the small things that to you make up deep work. Good if so- that's a start. Best wishes, good luck!