Stop apologizing for how your mind works.
Start naming what you have always known but never had words for...until now.

Some things can't be understood.
But they can be recognized with the Just Right Words.

A weekly publication for Neurosparklers and the Nearlynormies who love us but can't understand how we see it/It/IT.

Six daily lenses. One word per week. No spam, ever.

What You Get

Six Daily Lenses.
One Word Per Week.

Vocabulary that ends the loneliness and begins the conversation by defining it/It/IT.

STIQS

The Chooser Gets to Choose

The foundational principle. Learn the difference between what is a choice and what is simply how you are built. One question that changes everything.

S

Strengths

What you do effortlessly that exhausts everyone else. Not your résumé strengths. Your cognitive architecture.

T

Temperament

The operating temperature of your nervous system. Why some environments are fuel and others are friction.

I

Intellect

How you take in and process information. Pattern recognition, gestalt thinking, hyperlexia, deep focus. It's your OS, not a diagnosis.

Q

Quirks

The features that were called flaws. The things you apologized for before you had the just right words for what they actually are.

S

Story

The narrative you've been living inside. We don't just name what you are. We help you see how you got here, and choose where you go next.

The Framework for Understanding how you see it

The Bird Brain Johari Window

Four ways of seeing. Four Birds. One Brain. One way of being.

Open · Known to Both
Eagle

Eagle

What Is visible and available to us both at this moment?

T · Tackle the Topic
Blind Spot · Known to Others
Parrot

Parrot

What if you can see the view from my blind spot?

R · Resolve the Referent
Hidden · Known to Self
Owl

Owl

What I can see now that I cannot explain yet.

I · Interrogate Your Inklings
Unknown · Known to Neither
Hummingbird

Hummingbird

What should we do next that will guide us?

P · Practice Pragmatic Positivity

Get to No University teaches Cognitively Complicated Couples how to see the lens of their own Johari Window without requiring us to translate first.

Get to No University

A foolproof formula
for failing fabulously.

Get to No University is not a course. It's a cognitive operating system built by a Neurosparkler, for Neurosparklers and the Nearlynormies who are willing to learn a new language.

We don't teach you how to succeed by someone else's definition. We teach you how to identify the difference between what is a choice and what is simply how you are built, and design a life that fits your cognitive operating system.

What you'll stop doing after the first month:

  • Apologizing for how your mind works
  • Explaining yourself before you're allowed to speak
  • Translating your experience into Nearlynormie-safe language
  • Treating your operating system like a character flaw
  • Asking whether you're too much
  • Waiting for someone else to give you permission to be recognized
Where to Start

Five doors. Walk through any of them.

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Read the Book

Through the Hummingbird's Eye

A Neurosparkle Manifesto. An adult message disguised as a children's storybook.

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