// know yourself
10 questions. Fight, flight, freeze, or fawn: what does your body choose under pressure?
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In a job you dislike, your instinct is to:
This test is built around the fight, flight, freeze, and fawn framework, a model from trauma and stress psychology describing the automatic, pre-conscious ways the nervous system reacts to threat, long before rational thought has a chance to weigh in.
These responses are not choices, they are wiring, often shaped by what actually worked to keep you safe in the past. Knowing your default response matters because it explains reactions that otherwise look irrational from the outside, why you go silent in conflict, why you over-apologize, why you would rather run than talk it out.
This kind of self-knowledge is especially useful under real pressure, at work, in relationships, in emergencies, where understanding your own automatic pattern is the first step to eventually choosing a different one.