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 “The bootcamp grad fixed it before my coffee even cooled”, including the private rule underneath it: Formal credentials are supposed to guarantee the pace of your work, so when someone without them moves faster, the rule concludes your years of training bought you nothing — instead of questioning whether ticket speed ever measured…
QUIET
“The bootcamp grad fixed it before my coffee even cooled” appears, but it rarely gets the final say. Keep this line available for higher-pressure moments: “She'd seen that exact auth bug in her last job; I hadn't. That's the whole gap.”
PRESENT
“The bootcamp grad fixed it before my coffee even cooled” wins some small decisions before you catch it. Your useful interruption is: “My degree taught me things this ticket never touched. Neither number tells the whole story.”
ACTIVE
“The bootcamp grad fixed it before my coffee even cooled” is shaping action often enough to deserve a deliberate counterexample. Start privately and concretely: Before your next ticket, pour a coffee and jot the sip-count it takes to resolve it in a private note — no comparison, no sharing, just your own range across a few tickets.
DOMINANT
Right now, “The bootcamp grad fixed it before my coffee even cooled” is steering many of the moments you measured. That is a pattern reading, not a diagnosis or character verdict. Begin with one reversible receipt: Before your next ticket, pour a coffee and jot the sip-count it takes to resolve it in a private note — no comparison, no sharing, just your own range across a few tickets.