About Toolbox Quizzes

Simply being aware of some aspects which drive and influence our daily lives is a powerful first step to turning inward with curiosity and care, and which may initiate further ideas/choices.

Quizzes can be conducted with or without a support person, and are useful for individuals to:

Build better awareness of how they see themselves.
Explore their inner world with curiosity, not judgment.
Support emotional wellbeing, creative expression, and personal growth.

And for professionals to:

Aid counsellors and psychologists to use these tools at their own discretion.
Coach and educate to foster metacognition and reflective learning.
Further narrative therapy, dialogical therapy, and cognitive-behavioural approaches.

Quizzes may additionally prove beneficial for user selected third parties (IE in a pre-employment assessment situation, sports coaching, or professional counselling environment).

Terms of Use

The choice to use any tool or topic quiz is made freely by the individual. Quizzes provided have been selected, reviewed and determined by qualified professionals appropriately fit-for-purpose and hail either from legitimate academic studies or research, or examples as currently used by health professionals. Permissions for reproduction and use has been gained by the content owners, where applicable. Supporting material is available in ‘Resources’. Our charter is not in the business of gathering email addresses for promotional campaigns or bombarding users with offers of any kind. The tools provided are FREE to use and designed for individuals in any stage of interest or curiosity. Basic advice relating to quiz results are provided automatically. Follow up on any matter herein is entirely in the hands of the induvial. No future automated correspondence with users is intended, or implied. Users can leave (or de-register, if activating that function) at any time.

Tips & Tricks

There is no pressure to get questions ‘right’.
Higher scoring results may not be as desirable as one might usually imagine.
Results are of course dependent on the answers users provide, and to which accuracy and honesty levels are entirely determined by the user.
It is helpful to imagine or recall a specific life event or occurrence when considering the questions.
Contextually, quiz results will likely vary when related to different life events.
Quizzes can be aborted freely at any stage during completion.

All quizzes are academically and professionally verified. We endeavour to replicate quizzes, tools and material to the closest standard and process guidelines (if provided) or as directed by the study author/s. Quizzes use plain English, with as little subject jargon as possible. We recommend users are as honest as possible.

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Quizzes may be undertaken on a one-off basis for which results are immediately available online as a simple screen saver.
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Dwell Time

It sort of goes against the grain, but humans are fantastic at running on the spot, making instant decisions, acting on instinct – but mostly when it’s a physical risk or danger situation. We are not so good at doing the same in a social situation. A chat in the pub, becomes an argument, then a fight breaks out because neither party was able to use their instincts in a verbal social situation, that then gets out of hand. This is partly what makes for a wise person, not often due to the accuracy of their answers or not necessarily having a secret power to deal with things any better than anyone younger, but because wise people are more paced, and measured, and take a timely patient approach to most things (excluding rock about to hit them, or reacting to avoid a pedestrian on the road).

A good example is families feeling overwhelmed or even as if they are going insane when they have to quickly decide whether to accept or reject an offer on their home. This decision falls somewhere between a basic physical need – like choosing shelter, which we’re good at handling instinctively – and a complex social decision, for which we do not have the luxury of dwell-time.

Dwell-time itself is incredibly powerful as it allows our conscious self to better consider (which is also fed and processed at a subconscious level) to assist forming solutions or approaches to tricky on non-obvious outcomes.

Dwell-time:
Easier pace for better outcomes.
The power of simple patience.
Do less, get more.
Reflecting is a gateway to wisdom.

It sort of goes against the grain, but humans are fantastic at running on the spot, making instant decisions, acting on instinct – but mostly when it’s a physical risk or danger situation. We are not so good at doing the same in a social situation. A chat in the pub, becomes an argument, then a fight breaks out because neither party was able to use their instincts in a verbal social situation, that then gets out of hand. This is partly what makes for a wise person, not often due to the accuracy of their answers or not necessarily having a secret power to deal with things any better than anyone younger, but because wise people are more paced, and measured, and take a timely patient approach to most things (excluding rock about to hit them, or reacting to avoid a pedestrian on the road).

A good example is families feeling overwhelmed or even as if they are going insane when they have to quickly decide whether to accept or reject an offer on their home. This decision falls somewhere between a basic physical need – like choosing shelter, which we’re good at handling instinctively – and a complex social decision, for which we do not have the luxury of dwell-time.

Dwell-time itself is incredibly powerful as it allows our conscious self to better consider (which is also fed and processed at a subconscious level) to assist forming solutions or approaches to tricky on non-obvious outcomes.

Dwell-time:
Easier pace for better outcomes.
The power of simple patience.
Do less, get more.
Reflecting is a gateway to wisdom.

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