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THE SURVIVAL GAP QUIZ
Find your starting point — a reader diagnostic for Start Over by Lucy Were.
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Email Address
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When things get hard, your default move is:
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Push through: Work harder, stay later, and out-hustle whatever is going wrong.
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Shut down: Go quiet, go still, and wait for it to pass.
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Put others first: Feel guilty and try to take care of everyone around you before you deal with yourself.
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Blow it up: Pivot, restart, or walk away and build something completely different.
When you sit down to work on a big goal, your body feels:
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Wired and urgent: Hard to sit still, brain racing, like you need to move now.
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Heavy and foggy: Hard to start, hard to focus, like the goal is behind a thick wall of glass.
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Guilty: Like there is something more important you should be doing for someone else first.
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Braced: Determined but tense, like you are waiting for something to go wrong again.
Your relationship with asking for help is:
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I don't ask: Asking means I can't handle it. That is not an option.
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I can't ask: I want to reach out but something in me freezes before I do.
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I help everyone else: Asking for myself feels selfish when there are people depending on me.
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I stopped: I've asked before and the price was too high. I handle things alone now.
Which sentence hits closest to home?
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"You are doing too much." I hear this but I don't know how to stop. Stopping feels like losing.
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"Why can't you just get it together?" I ask myself this all the time. I don't have a good answer.
C
"You owe it to your family to succeed." This plays on repeat. The pressure is not just mine to carry.
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"You have been through this before. Why does it keep happening?" I know. That is exactly what I am trying to figure out.
When you think about money and success, the feeling underneath is:
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Urgency: If I slow down, I will lose everything I built. I cannot afford to stop.
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Doubt: I do not know if I can build something that actually lasts.
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Weight: I need to make enough to take care of everyone depending on me. My needs come last.
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Wariness: I have had it before. I know how to get it back. I just need to stop the cycle.
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