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 “I can't feel good about anything at work anymore”, including the private rule underneath it: The decision that kept me was arbitrary—which means I can't fully own it. If I can't explain why I was chosen, then the good outcome isn't really mine to feel good about. Survivor arbitrariness creates a debt I need to settle before I'm…
QUIET
“I can't feel good about anything at work anymore” appears, but it rarely gets the final say. Keep this line available for higher-pressure moments: “There is no answer that makes this feel clean. Layoffs are messy—that's a feature, not evidence I'm missing something.”
PRESENT
“I can't feel good about anything at work anymore” wins some small decisions before you catch it. Your useful interruption is: “I kept my job. I didn't take theirs. Those are two different facts.”
ACTIVE
“I can't feel good about anything at work anymore” is shaping action often enough to deserve a deliberate counterexample. Start privately and concretely: Write down one work win from this week, then write one true sentence about why you might have stayed that doesn't require it to also explain why someone else left. Don't share it.
DOMINANT
Right now, “I can't feel good about anything at work anymore” is steering many of the moments you measured. That is a pattern reading, not a diagnosis or character verdict. Begin with one reversible receipt: Write down one work win from this week, then write one true sentence about why you might have stayed that doesn't require it to also explain why someone else left. Don't share it.