Mindset Assessment

Take our assessment and explore your mindset

Once complete, you can see your results on screen and, if you wish, also have them emailed to you. Your tailored reports include performance coaching tools and tips.

Over the past three decades, Philip Zimbardo undertook groundbreaking research into time perspective and mindset. We have adapted one of his assessments, called the Zimbardo Time Perspective Index.

The online assessment, takes about five minutes to complete. Once you’re done, you’ll receive a personalised mindset report. Your report will include tips for enhancing your resilience, self-care, and self-compassion. It’s a small investment of your time that promises significant returns in your studies and at work.

Response	Description
Strongly Disagree	I completely disagree with the statement or feel that it is not applicable to me.
Disagree	I mostly disagree with the statement, but not as strongly as “Strongly Disagree.”
Neither Agree nor Disagree	I am neutral about the statement. I neither agree nor disagree with it.
Agree	I mostly agree with the statement, but not as strongly as “Strongly Agree.”
Strongly Agree	I completely agree with the statement and feel it applies strongly to me.

Take the assessment to explore your mindset

To start the quiz just add your first name and click on “Start Quiz”. Results are displayed on screen at the end of the assessment. If you would like your results emailed to you, add your email address in the field provided – that’s helpful because you can revisit your roles and share them with friends and colleagues.

Enter your name and email address to receive the results of your quiz

I believe that meeting friends to celebrate is one of the most important pleasures in life.

Spending what I earn on pleasures today is better than saving for tomorrow's security.

I feel that it is more important to enjoy what you are doing than to do things on time.

Even when I am enjoying the present, I am led to make comparisons with similar experiences in the past.

I feel 'out of the loop' when people in my family talk about how things used to be.

It loses all joy in the process and disrupts the flow of my activities if I have to think about its objectives, results, and products.

There is no point in worrying about the future since there is nothing I can do.

Familiar sights, sounds and smells from childhood often bring back wonderful memories.

When I want to achieve something, I set goals and consider specific ways to achieve them.

Meeting deadlines for tomorrow and getting other necessary work done come before the night's fun.

I will keep working on difficult and uninteresting tasks if they help me move forward.

For me, it is more important to enjoy life's journey than to focus solely on the destination.

Putting it on a scale, there are more good things than bad things to remember from my past.

Life these days is very complicated; I would prefer the simpler life of the past.

The past has so many unpleasant memories that I prefer not to think about it.

Take our assessment and explore your mindset

Once complete, you can see your results on screen and, if you wish, also have them emailed to you. Your tailored reports include performance coaching tools and tips.

Take the assessment to explore your mindset

Enter your name and email address to receive the results of your quiz

I believe that meeting friends to celebrate is one of the most important pleasures in life.

Spending what I earn on pleasures today is better than saving for tomorrow's security.

I feel that it is more important to enjoy what you are doing than to do things on time.

I think about the bad things that happened to me in the past.

I prefer friends who are spontaneous to those who are predictable.

Taking risks keeps my life from becoming boring.

It is difficult for me to forget unpleasant images from my childhood.

Even when I am enjoying the present, I am led to make comparisons with similar experiences in the past.

I feel 'out of the loop' when people in my family talk about how things used to be.

I don't worry if things aren't done on time.

I like my intimate relationships to be passionate.

I complete my projects on time through continuous progress.

I have received my share of cruelty and rejection in the past.

When I listen to my favourite songs, I lose all track of time.

I've made mistakes in the past that I wish I could undo.

I often think about what I should have done differently in my life.

I try to live my life as fully as possible, one day at a time.

I enjoy thinking about my past.

I take risks to make my life exciting.

Destiny determines a lot of things in my life.

I believe that one's day should be planned early each morning.

It loses all joy in the process and disrupts the flow of my activities if I have to think about its objectives, results, and products.

There is no point in worrying about the future since there is nothing I can do.

Familiar sights, sounds and smells from childhood often bring back wonderful memories.

I make lists of the things I have to do.

I get upset when I'm late for my appointments.

Before making a decision, I weigh the costs and benefits.

When I want to achieve something, I set goals and consider specific ways to achieve them.

I feel nostalgic about my childhood.

I often follow my heart more than my reason.

I accept each day as it is, rather than trying to plan it.

There will always be time to catch up on my work.

I make decisions on the spur of the moment.

Since things will be the way they have to be, it doesn't matter what I do.

I fulfill my obligations to friends and authorities on time.

Meeting deadlines for tomorrow and getting other necessary work done come before the night's fun.

I like stories about how things used to be in the 'good old days'.

I find myself being carried away by the excitement of the moment.

Painful experiences from the past keep replaying in my mind.

It is important to have stimulating experiences in my life.

Ideally, I would live each day of my life as if it were my last.

I will keep working on difficult and uninteresting tasks if they help me move forward.

My life path is controlled by forces that I cannot influence.

My decisions are most often influenced by the people and things around me.

For me, it is more important to enjoy life's journey than to focus solely on the destination.

I do things impulsively.

Putting it on a scale, there are more good things than bad things to remember from my past.

Things rarely work out the way I expect.

You can't make plans for the future because things change a lot.

Happy memories of good times come easily to my mind.

Luck often gives better results than hard work.

I can resist temptation when I know there is work to be done.

Life these days is very complicated; I would prefer the simpler life of the past.

The past has so many unpleasant memories that I prefer not to think about it.

I think about the good things I missed in my life.

I like family ceremonies and traditions that are regularly repeated.