Smart enough to know exactly what to do, and still can’t make it stick? That’s who I built The Alignment Project for.

Actually follow through: we meet live every week, you pick one small experiment, and the next week I ask how it went (not a room of 500).

The first 21 members lock in $49/mo for good, and you get 30 days to try it or I refund it. Here’s the invite.

Nik Bakhshalian is back for round three. He just got home from Mensa’s annual gathering, and he says a lot of the people he met there are neurodivergent in some way.

Nik was diagnosed with ADHD about two years ago, then took two more years to mail his Mensa letter. His words: “it’s such an ADHD thing.” And the reason nobody caught it sooner: “my intelligence made it so that I didn’t have to pay attention in class. I just did well.”

We get into being smart and ADHD at the same time (Nik explains the “twice exceptional” thing), how a high IQ can mask ADHD for years, the hyperfocus then zero interest cycle, how hard you should push yourself, obsession vs white-knuckling, the halo effect, and why we doom scroll instead of sleeping.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Smart enough to hide it
00:11 Nik’s back for round three
00:45 Inside Mensa’s annual gathering
02:19 Why so many members are neurodivergent
04:35 Diagnosed 2 years ago (and the 2-year letter)
05:19 How a high IQ masks ADHD
08:53 Smart isn’t the same as growth-minded
13:14 Mensa’s untapped potential
18:00 “Because I can”
22:43 ADHD hyperfocus and the don’t over-invest rule
26:49 Social clubs, drive and the old guard
30:59 “We can’t” vs the laws of physics
34:54 Starry-eyed reformers vs inertia
37:06 Leading change at work
38:55 Books, looks and the sweatpants years
46:15 The halo effect
49:20 Drive vs contentment (and jet lag)
52:17 How hard should you push yourself?
54:16 Obsession vs white-knuckling
56:59 Certainty, confidence and ADHD
1:02:33 What success means (and why we doom scroll)
1:06:02 Outro

Guest: Nik Bakhshalian

Host: Brian Comstock
Transformation Artist | Coach
Instagram: @brian.comstock