QUIET
Quiet signal
“It's faster to do it myself than to teach them” appears, but it rarely gets the final say. Keep this line available for higher-pressure moments: “Doing it myself is faster once. Teaching it is faster every week after.”
SCRIPT CHECK · 60 SECONDS
“It's faster to do it myself than to teach them”
See what this thought is changing.
Five quick questions show how often it appears, how believable it feels, and what it makes you avoid. You’ll get one private next step.
What this self-check measures
This is not a diagnosis and there is no pass or fail. It measures the current frequency, credibility, and behavioral cost of “It's faster to do it myself than to teach them”, including the private rule underneath it: My value is what I personally produce—the team's output doesn't count as mine. The player reflex tells you that doing something yourself is a 1x time cost, but teaching takes infinite time. It doesn't count the cost of maintaining that…
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PRESENT
Present in the background
“It's faster to do it myself than to teach them” wins some small decisions before you catch it. Your useful interruption is: “My output changed shape: it's the team's output now. Different unit, same work.”
ACTIVE
Active pattern
“It's faster to do it myself than to teach them” is shaping action often enough to deserve a deliberate counterexample. Start privately and concretely: Open your calendar from the past three weeks. Count how many evenings or weekends you spent finishing someone else's work. Compare that to how many conversations you had about why they sent it that way.
DOMINANT
Getting the final word
Right now, “It's faster to do it myself than to teach them” is steering many of the moments you measured. That is a pattern reading, not a diagnosis or character verdict. Begin with one reversible receipt: Open your calendar from the past three weeks. Count how many evenings or weekends you spent finishing someone else's work. Compare that to how many conversations you had about why they sent it that way.
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