Preventer SBTI type

The most cautious person you know. Reads a news headline → assumes worst case → plans escape route. A text from boss = immediate fear of being fired. A notification from bank = immediate fear of being broke. Actively imagines disaster scenarios for fun (it's not fun). When nothing bad happens, they feel relieved for exactly 5 minutes, then start worrying about the next thing.

Boss sends a message: 'can we talk when you're free?' OH-NO's mind: I'm getting fired. OR someone complained. OR the project is failing. OR all three. Spends 30 minutes preparing a defense. Walks to the meeting room with a dry mouth. Boss says: 'just wanted to say good job on the presentation yesterday.' OH-NO: '...thanks.' Needs an hour to recover.

You spot the holes, you list the risks, you predict the failure — and the failure happens, and nobody remembers you warned them. That's your hardest moment. Not being dismissed. Being validated and forgotten. Why do you scan for risks instead of imagining good outcomes? Not pessimism — you learned early that 'expected good, got bad' hurts much more than 'expected bad, got bad.' So your brain pre-loads the worst case. That way, failure is 'I knew it,' not 'I actually believed.' The 'oh no' is armor. The holes you find are real. Your judgment is your edge. But armor worn long enough, you forget the person inside — the one who still wants to believe 'this time it works.' Of those 12 risk points you listed, one was secretly hoping to be proven wrong.