Attribution style · 48 scenarios · free
Bad day. Whose fault?
How you explain it says a lot.
Same spill, two stories. Pick the explanation you would reach for in 48 everyday moments, and see how you explain good days and bad ones.
About 15 minutes. No right or wrong answers.
Toy · rewrite the story
One moment.
Eight ways to tell it.
Pick a moment, then flip the three switches. Nothing about the moment changes. Only the story does.
ToyA toy, not the test. Nothing is scored or saved.
The bus pulls away just as you reach the stop.
“It was me, it’ll always be like this, it’s everything.”
Each chip is a real result label for that end of the scale.
Good news counts too
Same three questions.
Now for the wins.
The test asks about good days as well as bad ones, and the story flips. On a bad day, “me, always, everything” counts toward the pessimistic side. On a good day, the very same story counts toward the optimistic side.
How the real test works
Two stories.
Pick the one you’d tell.
- 48 everyday scenariosGetting a compliment, missing a deadline, winning something small.
- A/B two explanations eachYou pick the one that feels most natural to you.
- 0 right or wrong answersNot what you should think. What you do think.
- ~15 minutesGo with the first answer that comes to you.
Sample result
Your report.
Good and bad, side by side.
You get an overall score from −24 to +24, six scores out of 8, a Hope Index out of 16, and a card you can share.
- Six rows: each dimension, for bad events and for good ones
- A short read on what each score looks like in practice
- A Hope Index, from how you explain bad events
The honest part
It reads the story,
not the cause.
Habits, not verdicts.
It describes your habits of thinking, not the actual cause of an event.
Context matters.
No explanation makes you responsible for someone else’s harmful behaviour.
Not a diagnosis.
There are no right or wrong answers. It shows how you tend to explain things, and patterns like these can shift.
Fresh cup.
New story.
48 scenarios · about 15 minutes · no right or wrong answers