Score yourself in real time.

How often do you find yourself thinking about your problem unprompted — in the shower, mid-meal, before sleep?

In the last month, how many customer conversations did you have specifically about this problem?

Have you survived something materially hard already — money, health, family, betrayal — and kept moving?

When a plan breaks, how quickly do you get back to shipping rather than spiral?

How often do your beliefs about the customer change because of new evidence (weekly = high, yearly = low)?

How fast do you get a v1 of a new idea in front of a real user?

Can you explain why the 'obvious' solution in your space is actually wrong, from first principles?

Look at three products you love — can you articulate the second-order design choices that make them great?

How comfortable are you closing the very first paying customer, alone, without a deck?

Can you tell the story of what you're building in 90 seconds so a stranger remembers it the next day?

Do you ship the things you commit to, on the day you commit to them?

Do you know your top 5 numbers (revenue, retention, burn, etc.) without opening a dashboard?

Have A-players said yes to you — sometimes at a pay cut — because of you, not the salary?

When you describe the mission, do people you've just met ask 'how do I help?'

Under cash pressure, would you keep a promise to a customer even if no one would notice you broke it?

When you made a real mistake recently, did you own it publicly before anyone could call it out?