SCRIPT CHECK · 60 SECONDS
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.
This is not a diagnosis and there is no pass or fail. It measures the current frequency, credibility, and behavioral cost of “My work doesn't count unless someone watched me do it”, including the private rule underneath it: If nobody watched the work happen, it does not fully count, and if it does not count, it cannot protect you from being overlooked. The safe move is to stay visible at all times, because hidden effort is treated like missing effort.
QUIET
“My work doesn't count unless someone watched me do it” appears, but it rarely gets the final say. Keep this line available for higher-pressure moments: “Proximity bias is real, so I document the result instead of performing busyness.”
PRESENT
“My work doesn't count unless someone watched me do it” wins some small decisions before you catch it. Your useful interruption is: “The work existed before anyone saw me do it. That does not cancel it.”
ACTIVE
“My work doesn't count unless someone watched me do it” is shaping action often enough to deserve a deliberate counterexample. Start privately and concretely: Open a recent file, draft, or note and add a plain one-line summary at the top that says what changed, then save it in the same place. Do not send it.
DOMINANT
Right now, “My work doesn't count unless someone watched me do it” 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 a recent file, draft, or note and add a plain one-line summary at the top that says what changed, then save it in the same place. Do not send it.