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Anti-patternv1AP-040

Capacity-as-character anti-pattern

treating cognitive capacity as a character trait rather than a physical constraint, where inability to sustain output triggers moral self-judgment rather than structural adjustment of workload to actual capacity

Why This Is an Anti-Pattern

Inverts capacity-overestimation (Capacity-overestimation pattern). Violates Directed Attention as Depletable Resource (attention/energy finite). Recurs in burnout culture, hustle ideology, disability denial.