It measures where you sit on the shame continuum — Not Good Enough at one end, Never My Fault at the other — and which way you move under pressure.
Hunter & Farmer — a 10-minute calibration
There are no right answers here, and nothing you do is scored as good or bad. Go with your first instinct. It runs entirely on your own device — nothing is sent anywhere until you choose to send it at the end.
🔒 Private until you press sendOne continuum, many rooms. Your pick changes the words at the two ends and the names in your report — not the reading itself.
The questions are written for a sales floor; the reading is the same in any room.
Lock in your own read first, before any questions. There's no right answer; we just want your instinct before the calibration has its say.
For each pair, pick the one that's more you on a normal, unpressured day. Both are good. Pick the truer one.
Real commercial pressure. Slide toward whichever end is closer to your honest first reaction — not the one you'd like to claim.
Tap your first reaction, then your second. (1 = most like you, 2 = next.)
Nothing has left your device. The next screen is just for you. We'll show you what you guessed against what the calibration read.
Under pressure, can you say “I don’t know”? Can you say “I’ve got this wrong”?
The centre of the continuum is being able to say them — wrong for a moment, out loud, without losing your footing. Under enough pressure most of us can’t, and the moment has to go somewhere: inward, onto ourselves, or outward, onto someone else. This shows where you sit, and which way you move when the sentence won’t come.
▲ calm ▲ under pressure — the distance between them is your drift.
The way back is the sentence itself. Practise saying “I don’t know” and “I’ve got this wrong” when the stakes are small, so they are still sayable when the stakes are high. The drift is not a fault to fix; it is a signal to catch a second sooner.
This is a calibration, not a verdict — a picture of tendency, not a measure of ability. It describes a style, and every style closes. This reads a line sixty years of psychology has described, and calls the shame continuum. What it adds is the drift: how far, and which way, you move when pressure arrives.