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Dr. Gaby Cora’s Mini Burnout Quiz
Ten statements. About two minutes. An honest look at where you stand right now.
This quiz came out of Leading Under Pressure, and the book had one question at its heart: do you need a coach, or a doctor? Dr. Corá’s answer was both. She is a psychiatrist who coaches executives, and at the time nobody was putting those two things together.
That is why the statements below ask about your chest, your sleep, and your Sunday nights rather than your job satisfaction. It is not a diagnostic test and was never meant to be one: in 2010 there was no clinical category to test against, and the World Health Organization would not settle on a definition of burnout for another nine years.
The full quiz runs to twenty-five statements and is in the book. This shorter one exists because a journalist asked for it: while reporting “When the CEO Burns Out” in 2013, Leslie Kwoh wanted a version readers could finish in a couple of minutes.
Ten is not simply a shorter twenty-five. Dr. Corá kept the items that had proved to matter across all three of the rooms she works in: the psychiatrist’s, the consultant’s, and the coach’s. So the questions that survived are the ones you can observe. Chest pain mistaken for a heart attack. The drink that has become necessary. The pills. The Sunday afternoon. Not one of them asks whether you enjoy your job.
Answer honestly. Nothing you enter leaves your device.
Your result
A snapshot of how things stand today, not a diagnosis, and never a substitute for talking to your own doctor.