const RES={ sustainable:{means:['Your answers suggest the load you carry is real but recoverable. Rest still works on you: a weekend, a run, a good night\u2019s sleep resets most of what the week took.','The risk at this level is not the load. It is drift. Founders rarely move from sustainable to elevated in one event. They get there by deferring recovery one phase at a time.','Use this result as a baseline. Retake it after your next raise, launch or hard quarter, and watch which dimension moves first.'], sig:[['What this likely feels like','Busy, sometimes stretched, but you still recognise yourself at the end of the week.'],['Physical signals','Sleep mostly holds. Energy dips are tied to specific days rather than constant.'],['Nervous system signals','You can switch off, even if it takes an evening to get there.'],['The science','Recovery that happens regularly prevents strain from accumulating. The protective factor is consistency, not intensity.']], act:['Protect what is working','Name the one recovery habit that keeps you here, and put it in the calendar for the next four weeks as if it were a board meeting.']}, managed:{means:['You are functioning well on the outside and paying for it on the inside. Most of your energy is going into holding things steady rather than moving them forward.','The management itself, the lists, the coping routines, the deliberate calm, has started to cost something. That is often the first point where founders notice they are tired in a way sleep does not fix.','This is the most recoverable point on the scale. Small structural changes at this stage do more than large ones later.'], sig:[['What this likely feels like','Competent and stretched. Weekends help, but less than they used to.'],['Physical signals','Lighter sleep, more caffeine, exercise slipping from routine to occasional.'],['Nervous system signals','A background hum of alertness that takes longer to fade after work.'],['The science','Early strain shows up as reduced recovery efficiency before it shows up as reduced performance.']], act:['Close one open loop','Pick the decision that has been sitting longest in the back of your mind. Make it, delegate it, or schedule it, by Friday.']}, elevated:{means:['Your system is still performing, and that is part of the problem. You are drawing on reserves to keep output steady, which means the cost is real but not yet visible to the people around you.','Your highest dimension is Cognitive. The pattern behind that score is usually a mind that does not stop: replaying the board meeting, running the runway model in the shower, rehearsing the next hard conversation while the current one is still going.','Rest alone will not fix this, because rest is where the cognitive load goes to run. What helps at this level is reducing what you are carrying, and having one place to put down what you cannot reduce.'], sig:[['What this likely feels like','Wired and tired. Productive in bursts, then flat. Small things irritate you more than they should.'],['Physical signals','Waking at 4 or 5 with your mind already working. Tension in the jaw, shoulders or gut. Needing more stimulant to start the day.'],['Nervous system signals','Threat-scan mode that does not fully switch off, even on stable days. Difficulty being present with people outside work.'],['The science','Sustained cognitive load with incomplete recovery narrows attention and degrades decision quality, often before the person notices any change.']], act:['Create one hard boundary on cognitive load','Choose one hour each evening this week when the laptop is closed and the phone is in another room. Write down anything your mind keeps returning to before that hour starts, so it has somewhere to go.']}, critical:{means:['You are carrying more than your system can absorb, and you have been for a while. That you are still functioning is a sign of capacity, not of safety.','At this level the usual tools, a holiday, a better routine, a new productivity system, tend not to land, because there is no spare capacity to adopt them.','The most useful thing now is to reduce the load with someone, not alone.'], sig:[['What this likely feels like','Running on empty and still running. Hard to remember what it felt like before.'],['Physical signals','Sleep that does not restore. Frequent illness, headaches or gut problems.'],['Nervous system signals','Either constantly on edge or strangely numb, sometimes both in the same day.']], act:['One honest conversation before anything else','Before you change any routine, tell one person the full picture. 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Calculating your score
Reading your responses across four energy dimensions.
12 questions designed for founders who already know something is off, but haven't named it yet.
Original instrument © Pausa 2026. Not a clinical diagnostic.
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If this result resonates and you're experiencing significant distress, please consider speaking with a qualified professional.
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