Paul in The Room · join the pilot

Where You Sit

Your coach starts here. Where You Sit reads where you sit on a calm day, and how far you move when the pressure is on.

How joining works. The pilot is free at the moment. Allow about twenty minutes: Where You Sit, the last section, then six short questions for your coach. At the end, send it all to Paul. Bob, Paul’s AI agent, then emails you from bob@paulroebuck.co.uk with your personal report as a PDF, and your private link once your coach is ready. If you don’t see it, check your junk or spam folder. Your coach plugs into your own Claude account: any Claude plan you need is yours to pay for, directly with Anthropic.

Hunter & Farmer

There are no right answers, and nothing is scored as good or bad. Go with your first instinct. It runs entirely on your device — nothing is sent until you choose to send it at the end.

Private until you press send

Which room are you in?

Pick this first. Your pick changes the questions to suit you, and the names in your report.

Most people choose Myself: the questions are about everyday life. Choose Managers or Sales only if you want your coach mainly for that job.

Before you start — about you, and your honest guess

Lock in your read before the calibration has its say.

Your first name

Your email (your report and your coach come back here)

Which AI do you use?

Are you by nature more a Hunter (open new ground, chase, close) or a Farmer (grow, nurture, keep)? Your best guess at yourself, not your job: this calibrates you, not your role.

How sure are you?

Part 1 — On a calm day

For each pair, pick the one that's more you on a normal day. Both are good.

Part 2 — When the heat is on

Real commercial pressure. Slide toward whichever end is closer to your first reaction — not the one you'd like to claim.

Part 3 — In the moment

Tap your first reaction, then your second.

Part 4 — Last section (about three minutes)

Please answer all of these: your coach starts from them too, and your personal report needs them. Your result on screen does not change.

Beta. These questions are taken, some lightly reworded, from two published research measures: Rotter’s locus-of-control scale (1966) and the Compass of Shame Scale (Elison, Lennon & Pulos, 2006). We use them here for research, with credit, while we ask the authors and publishers for permission.

Part 5 — For your coach (six questions)

Short answers are fine. These go to Paul with your result, to set up your coach. Your coach is AI, and it is not therapy.

1. What would you like help with?

2. What would good look like in three months?

3. When something goes wrong, what do you say to yourself? Your own words.

4. How would you like your coach to be with you?

5. Where would you use your coach most?

6. Anything your coach should steer clear of?(optional)

Nothing has left your device. We'll show you what you guessed against what the calibration read.

Your calibration

Under pressure, can you say “I don’t know”? Can you say “I’ve got this wrong”?

The two ends are not each other’s opposites. The opposite of not good enough is not never-my-fault; it is good enough. The opposite of never-my-fault is being able to be wrong. The way out of either end is the middle, not the other end.

The centre is being able to say those two sentences — 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.

Where you sit

◀ NGE · FarmerHunter · FOF ▶

▲ calm ▲ under pressure — the distance between them is your drift.

On a calm day

Under pressure

Drift

After the event

Which way you move under pressure

What it costs you when it runs

Your job and your nature

Two rooms, one person

The way back to the centre

The way back is the sentence itself, and it is never the other end: a quiet worker who learns to push it off has not come back, he has swapped shores. 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.

Your email app opens with everything filled in: just press send. If nothing opens, press Keep a copy and email the file to paulsroebuck@gmail.com. Paul sets up your coach. Bob, his AI agent, emails you from bob@paulroebuck.co.uk with your personal report as a PDF, then your private link and a five-minute set-up. If you don’t see it, check your junk or spam folder, and if you get stuck, reply to Bob.

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. What it adds is the drift: how far, and which way, you move when pressure arrives.