Psy - Self sabotage
https://rachaelmeager.substack.com/p/finish-your-projects
Submitting your work for publication and review is the bottleneck. There are promising, intelligent, serious researchers who have tanked their own careers purely by not submitting their work.
https://newsletter.tomcritchlow.com/archive/birthing-books-planting-projects/
However you do it, creating anything comes with fear and self doubt. It’s tempting to self-sabotage by simply freezing up. By NOT doing the thing.