The free 5 Behaviours Quiz
Ready to get unstuck?
You've built a successful career. Good money. Good lifestyle. You just don't want it anymore.
You're ambitious, capable and good at what you do.
But you're bored. Going through the motions. Maybe you're exhausted by it.
You know something needs to change.
You just don't know what comes next.
The 5 Behaviours Quiz helps you understand what might be keeping you stuck.
Free. 20 questions. 5 minutes.
The hardest career to leave can be one you're successful in.
You've spent years building experience, status, relationships and a salary you don't particularly want to lose.
People expect you to keep progressing. Maybe you expect it from yourself.
So you stay.
Another project. Another promotion. Another pay rise. Another year.
All while wondering:
Is this really what I want to spend the next 10 years doing?
Because eventually you're not only questioning what you do.
You're questioning who you've become.
Workplace boredom has been associated with lower job satisfaction, lower organisational commitment and greater intentions to leave.1
So why haven't you changed it?
Knowing you want something different doesn't make the next move obvious.
Maybe you're:
- Scared of losing the salary and status you've worked for.
- Worried changing direction means starting again.
- Thinking too much about what everyone else will think.
- Waiting until you know exactly what you want next.
- Putting other people's expectations ahead of your own.
- Telling yourself you should be grateful for what you've got.
- Staying because your successful career feels safer than the unknown.
The 5 Behaviours Quiz helps you recognise the patterns that might be keeping you there.
Five Behaviours. One clearer picture.
Fulfilment
You've achieved what you were working towards. So why doesn't it feel better?
Does the life you're building still reflect what actually matters to you?
Research into self-determination theory suggests that autonomy, competence and relatedness are important psychological needs associated with motivation and wellbeing.2
Energy
Are you tired, or tired of what you're giving your energy to?
What gives you energy and what consistently drains it?
Research suggests work-related boredom is connected to psychological need satisfaction and the quality of our motivation at work.3
Authenticity
How much of your life is actually being chosen by you?
Are you doing what you want or what you've learned you're supposed to want?
Awareness
Do you know what's wrong, or just know something feels wrong?
How well do you understand what you're feeling, wanting and avoiding?
Belonging
What happens when you outgrow the people and environments around you?
Do the people around you still fit the person you're becoming?
Research on adult friendship has found that the quality of our friendships is associated with wellbeing.4
What you'll get
Your 5 Behaviours results
See which behaviours appear strongest and which might deserve your attention.
The psychology behind them
Explore psychological research relating to each area, why it matters and how it can influence the way you think, feel and behave.
Patterns you can start noticing
Once you recognise a behaviour, you'll start spotting it in everyday life: the decisions you avoid, the things you tolerate and the choices you make for other people.
Because it's difficult to change a pattern you haven't noticed yet.
Questions worth sitting with
Use your results to start exploring what's underneath the way you've been feeling.
This isn't going to tell you to quit your job.
And it definitely isn't going to discover your life purpose in 20 questions.
It's a diagnostic.
A way to understand why you might feel stuck despite being successful on paper.
Because before you decide what comes next, it helps to understand what's keeping you where you are.
How it works
- 1
Answer 20 questions
Go with your first instinct. It takes around five minutes.
- 2
Discover your 5 Behaviours
See your results across Fulfilment, Energy, Authenticity, Awareness and Belonging.
- 3
Start noticing the patterns
Once you can see what's happening, you can start deciding what you want to change.
Why I built this
I've spent more than 10 years building a successful career across technology, product and transformation.
I kept progressing. More responsibility. Bigger problems. Better money.
But eventually I had to admit something:
I didn't want the life I was building towards.
And when you've spent years becoming good at something, changing direction can feel like throwing away everything you've built.
My background is in Sport & Exercise Psychology, and I've always been fascinated by what drives people.
I've experienced defining chapters ending myself, from pursuing professional rugby as a teenager, to building a corporate career, to finding new challenges through three Ironmans.
DMCs came from trying to understand what happens when the thing that used to drive you doesn't anymore.
The 5 Behaviours Quiz is the starting point.
Not to tell you what to do. To help you understand what's keeping you from doing something about it.
Sean McDermottroe
Founder, DMCs
- BSc + MSc Sport & Exercise Psychology
- 10+ years in technology, product & transformation
- 3x Ironman
You've spent years building your career.
Don't spend the next 10 building a life you already know you don't want.
Find out what's keeping you stuck.
20 questions. 5 minutes. Free.
Research & sources
- Reijseger, G., Schaufeli, W. B., Peeters, M. C. W., Taris, T. W., van Beek, I., & Ouweneel, E. (2013). Watching the paint dry at work: Psychometric examination of the Dutch Boredom Scale. Anxiety, Stress & Coping, 26(5), 508–525. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2012.720676
- Ryan, R. M., & Deci, E. L. (2000). Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being. American Psychologist, 55(1), 68–78. https://doi.org/10.1037/0003-066X.55.1.68
- Van Hooff, M. L. M., & Van Hooft, E. A. J. (2017). Boredom at work: Towards a dynamic spillover model of need satisfaction, work motivation, and work-related boredom. European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, 26(1), 133–148. https://doi.org/10.1080/1359432X.2016.1241769
- Pezirkianidis, C., Galanaki, E., Raftopoulou, G., Moraitou, D., & Stalikas, A. (2023). Adult friendship and wellbeing: A systematic review with practical implications. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1059057. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1059057