Zoo Insights Reports

[OPEN ON DARCY — grounded, sitting across from you, about to show you something real]

Okay. We're going to look at a report together.

And I want to be clear upfront about what you're actually looking at — because this isn't a personality quiz with a result at the end.

It's two graphs. And the story lives in the relationship between them.

[GRAPH VISUAL: Both bar graphs appear side by side — Adapted on left, Natural on right]

Every report has two graphs.

The one on the right is your Natural Style. This is who you are at your most comfortable — when you're not under pressure, not performing for anyone, not trying to fit an environment that's asking something of you. It's your baseline. Your default wiring.

The one on the left is your Adapted Style. This is how you're currently showing up in response to your world. Your manager. Your team. The expectations around you — the ones people say out loud, and the ones they don't.

Now here's where it gets technical.

[Line highlights at the 50 mark on the graph]

There are three things I want you to look for on every report.

The first is the energy line — right here at 50.

Any score above 50 on your Natural graph means that behavior is part of your natural flow. It comes easily. Below 50 means it's a lower-intensity behavior for you — you can access it, but it doesn't come from your default wiring.

Here's why this matters:

When your Adapted score crosses that 50 line in a direction that moves away from your Natural score — when something that's naturally low for you is being asked of you constantly — that crossing costs energy.

Not always a problem. Flexing is healthy. But sustained adaptation across that line, over time, is where fatigue, disengagement, and burnout come from. Even when the person can't explain why they're exhausted.

[Highlight moves to the top of a very high bar]

The second thing to look for is over-extension. Any score above 90.

When a behavior is at 90 or above — Natural or Adapted — that archetype trait is at maximum intensity. And at maximum intensity, strengths start to tip into liabilities.

A Lion with a Natural directness score of 95 isn't just direct — they may be so direct that they're consistently landing as harsh, even when they don't mean to be. An Elephant with a 94 on accuracy isn't just thorough — they may be so detail-focused that they're creating bottlenecks and struggling to let anything ship.

Over-extension isn't bad wiring. It's a signal that a strength is running so hot it needs to be managed consciously.

[Highlight moves to a very low bar, close to 0]

The third thing? Under-extension. Scores very close to zero.

If over-extension means a behavior is running too hot, under-extension means it's essentially offline.

A Lemur showing a near-zero Adapted score on relationship-focus isn't an introvert. It's a Lemur in an environment that has made connection feel so unsafe, so unrewarded, or so costly that they've suppressed it almost entirely.

That's not who they are. That's what's happened to them.

Under-extension is often the most alarming thing on a report — precisely because it's quiet. High scores announce themselves. Low scores don't.

[BACK TO DARCY — report fades slightly]

So when you're reading a report, you're looking for all three:

Where is the energy line being crossed in the Adapted graph — and what's it costing?

Where is something running above 90 — and is that strength being managed or is it tipping over?

And where is something near zero — and is that a natural low, or a suppressed one?

The gap between the two graphs is the story. Your job is to read that story out loud, in a way that makes the person feel seen — not diagnosed.

(beat)

That's what we're going to practice.

[FADE]