The eight defaults.
Every person the lab has ever modelled runs one of these under pressure. Not a personality type — a pressure response. The taxonomy is public, owned by the Worst Version Institute, and free to learn.
The Builder
Busy as a hiding place.
The Builder's default is useful work.
The Overthinker
Research as a delay.
The Overthinker's default is analysis.
The Avoider
Later, always later.
The Avoider's default is deferral.
The Performer
Applause as oxygen.
The Performer's default is audience management.
The Comfort Seeker
Relief now, bill later.
The Comfort Seeker's default is relief.
The Drifter
Motion without a heading.
The Drifter's default is drift.
The Self-Doubter
Permission, pending.
The Self-Doubter's default is the audit.
The Seeker
Searching as the destination.
The Seeker's default is the next answer.
You don't get to vote. Your answers do.
The instrument reads behaviour, not self-image. Ten conversations, one engine, one file.