A Coin Toss

Survival profile

The reasons you live and the reasons you fall weigh exactly the same. You tend to choose looking after others at the decisive moment, and that sometimes saves you and sometimes puts you in danger. Your hold on people is a genuine asset, but a stretch will come that it alone cannot carry you through. With luck you go all the way; without it you stop somewhere in the middle. In daily life it shows up in small moments. You give up your seat on the train; when someone drops their bag your body moves before you decide to. If a friend asks a favor you usually say yes, and your own schedule slides back because of it. In normal times this comes back to you as a reputation for being a good person. But in a situation where everyone has to survive on their own, the same choice saves you on some days and does the opposite on others.

Strength and weakness

Not letting go of people is what carried you here. But when it covers for judgment that was needed instead, you sink along with the group. You spend the same effort on ones that already ended, so you stay — and keep spending time — where you should have walked away.

Advice

• Start with Your Lowest Bar — The shortest axis in the hexagon above is what's cutting your odds the most. Filling that one bar helps more than pushing your strengths higher.
• Choose the Right Group — Your outcome depends heavily on who you are with. Who you stand beside matters more than what you do.

Closing note

"Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none." — William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well