TEST 2 · REFLECTION

How much daisy is in you?

A playful self-test of your empathetic side

Read each statement and choose honestly what fits you. Nobody is watching: your answers are not stored anywhere.

AUnderstandingsensing what someone else feels
1. I can often tell how someone feels before they say a word.
2. In an argument, I can easily imagine how the other person sees it.
3. I notice straight away when the mood in a room shifts.
4. I sense well what someone needs at that moment.
BFeeling withfeeling someone else’s feelings yourself
5. When someone else is sad, I become sad too.
6. A film or a news item can stay with me for days.
7. When someone next to me is tense, I feel it in my own body.
8. I feel along so much that I sometimes forget what I feel myself.
CBoundarieswhat feeling with others costs you
9. I find it hard to say no when someone needs me.
10. After a busy day with people, I am completely drained.
11. I adapt easily, even when it doesn’t really suit me.
12. I feel responsible for how others feel.

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Nearly everyone has a narcissus and a daisy in their garden. This is a playful mirror, loosely based on research into empathy, not a diagnosis.