How is the energy of
your five ego states spread?

Does any of this sound like you?

• You hold a high bar and notice when standards slip.
• You nurture and look after people, sometimes before yourself.
• You can be cool-headed and factual when it counts.
• You have a free, playful, spontaneous streak.
• You read the room and adapt yourself to fit it.
• One of these is clearly louder than the rest in you.

Mapped together, those make your egogram — the shape of your energy across five functional states.

What's an "egogram"?

Jack Dusay refined Berne's model into five functional states, and a simple bar-graph of how much energy you put into each:

There's no "good" profile — only your shape, and what it makes easy or hard.

Here's how it actually plays out

A tall Critical Parent with a short Nurturing Parent can read as harsh; the reverse, as a pushover. A tall Adapted Child means you fit in beautifully and lose track of what you want. Dusay's "constancy hypothesis": raise one bar and the others rearrange — so growth is usually about lifting a low one, not crushing a high one.

What this test will show you

• Your tallest functional state
• The full shape of your five-part profile
• Which bar, gently raised, would balance you