For a lot of capable people, putting things off, never feeling good enough, feeling like a fraud and running on empty are the same thing in different clothes, and it's protecting something. Find out whether that's true for you.
Start the free preview See a sample report Takes ~8 minutes · No account needed to begin · Not a diagnosisMost people come in through one of these. Some recognise all four.
Research on perfectionism draws one line that changes how all of this reads.
Setting the bar high, caring about quality, keeping going. On its own this mostly helps people, and it's probably a lot of why you're good at what you do.
When a piece of work feels like a verdict on you. This is the side linked to procrastination and burnout. Your report tells you which side is running you.
Six parts. Your answers are scored first, so the shape is the same every time; then it's written around what you actually said.
The competence and standards that are real. First, because the rest isn't an argument against them.
Which pattern leads for you, whether the others move with it, and which side of your standards is in charge.
How it runs through your week, from the outside: the delay or the over-preparing, the sprint, the discounting.
The part of you running the pattern, named, and what it's afraid would happen if it eased off.
What it's costing you in energy, rest and the work itself. Plainly, without a score or a label.
Practices tied to the exact moments the pattern shows up for you, not a generic list.
This report describes the patterns in your answers. It isn't therapy, and it isn't a clinical assessment of burnout, imposter syndrome or anything else. If things feel heavier than a report can help with, a doctor or therapist is the right next step.
People who get things done and still feel behind. Who've been called successful and privately feel none of it. Who've tried a productivity system, a time-management trick and a holiday, and found the pattern was still there when they got back.
What people ask before they start.
Often because the stakes feel personal. When a piece of work feels like a verdict on you rather than on the work, starting it means risking that verdict, so part of you delays it. Research on perfectionism separates high standards themselves, which mostly help, from the fear of falling short, which is linked to procrastination and to burnout.
No. It is a self-understanding tool, not therapy and not a clinical assessment. It describes the patterns in your answers. If things feel heavier than a report can help with, a doctor or therapist is the right next step.
Then the report says so. Your answers are scored first, and the report only describes the patterns that actually show up for you. For some people the four move together; for others it is mostly one thing, and that is useful to know too.
A six-part report: what you genuinely carry, which pattern leads for you, the loop it runs in your week, what it is protecting, what it costs you, and practices tied to the moments it shows up. The free preview gives you the lead insight from every section.
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