The Flight or Fight Tendency Quiz - Chinese Martial Arts and Health Centre Australia

Do you identify as an aggressive person?

Do you dislike challenges?

Do potential threats make you afraid?

Blood and gore make you feel queasy.

Left to your own devices, do you tend to seek a comfortable existence?

Do you feel that cardio is a waste of your time?

After watching an action movie, you think about how you might have responded better than the main protagonist to the situations.

You were not frequently bullied at school because you had a handle on how to stay out of trouble from day one. Remaining one step ahead of the school bully was child’s play for you.

After being startled, do you feel angry?

You’ve always preferred Spiderman over The Incredible Hulk.

You firmly believe that violence is never justified.

Do your friends think that you have a short temper?

You can’t understand why the main protagonists in horror movies always run away from the monster.

When you were a child, did you often have temper tantrums?

At school, did you get involved in fights often?

Are you a natural sprinter?

Do verbal altercations involving threats make you feel uneasy and uncomfortable?

Do you have a particularly high pain threshold?

You feel a very strong urge to make the people around you happy.

Do your friends call you stubborn?

Beyond idle curiosity, you have never been interested in martial arts or combat training.

When given a choice between two movies of equal quality, would you prefer an action movie over a comedy?

You are currently engaged in a physical training program.

When watching action movies, do you find yourself feeling afraid during the action sequences?

You cannot remember ever having lost your temper.

Are you interested in watching footage of fights?

You can’t understand why the main protagonists in horror movies stick around. If it were you, the movie would be over in five minutes because you’d be on the first taxi/bus/ferry/plane/Uber to anywhere else.

Do you feel uncomfortable around people who are fascinated by weapons?

You took great pride in outsmarting the school bully.

Do you consider yourself to be physically and mentally strong?

You find yourself preoccupied much of the time with trying to figure out what most of the people around you think of you.

You consider yourself to be able to handle yourself in a fight.

You either are engaged in or want to be engaged in a physical training program primarily to look good and feel healthy.

You have always identified as being a fighter. You face your problems head on, fists at the ready if need be.

You have always considered yourself able to avoid conflict through running, cunning and subterfuge.

You are jogging early in the morning through a deserted area of town. There are no street-lights in this area and you are navigating by moonlight alone. It is chilly and the pre-dawn glow is still a few hours away. As you are jogging past a disused block of land covered by low-lying shrubs and bushes, a pack of three dogs rush from their hiding place in the low bushes and sprint towards you barking loudly and aggressively. You believe that they are going to attack you. Fear gives you wings and you run like the hounds of hell are on your tail.

It is late at night in town and the streets are nearly deserted. You are walking past a side-street when you happen to notice a group of 4 adult males apparently fighting amongst themselves. On closer inspection as you walk past, you realize that three of the men have ganged up and are beating the fourth as he struggles on the ground. You can see blood on his face. You then notice an object that could be a knife in the hand of one of the three attackers. Without thinking, you stride into the side-street shouting to draw their attention away from the man on the ground.

A work colleague of yours is pulled up in a meeting by your manager who accuses her of poor management of a project that she is in charge of. Your colleague tends to avoid confrontation wherever possible and accepts responsibility for the problem. You know that your manager’s accusations are unfounded as the source of the error was outside of your friend’s control. You decide to remain quiet as your friend would prefer not to draw attention to the incident.

As you are walking through a crowd at the local mall, an adult male collides with you and shoves you aside with his shoulder. He turns his head, swears at you and continues walking away. You quicken your pace in the opposite direction, grateful that nothing further happened and determine to report the person to mall security.

As you are driving home, the car behind you closes distance until they are uncomfortably close to you. They then proceed to swerve from side to side, clearly frustrated by your speed even though you are driving at the limit. You can see the female driver gesticulating and mouthing what could only be curses at you in your rear-view mirror. You feel an uncontrollable urge to speed up to widen the gap between the cars and breathe a sigh of relief when the driver overtakes you revving her engine unnecessarily, hooting and swearing at you out of her rolled-down passenger window.