The Self-Aware Leader

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The Stress Response Audit

Identify your default threat pattern

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Jason Rigby
Mar 25, 2026
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Your nervous system has a default threat response. Under pressure, under attack, under uncertainty — it runs the same pattern it learned long before you were a leader. Fight. Freeze. Fawn. Collapse. This prompt identifies your pattern and examines where it comes from and what it costs you.

Because you can’t change what you can’t see.

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