What it measures
Roles is the extrinsic lens on the Inner World: how you value yourself by function — your job, your output, your usefulness to others. It is the dimension of the performing self: what you produce, how you're seen, whether your doing feels like enough.
When it's clear
Clear Roles means a clean relationship with your own performance: you can work hard without your worth riding on the outcome, accept feedback as data, wear a title without becoming it. Success and failure both register as events, not verdicts.
When it's blocked
Blocked Roles produces either workaholism — worth fused to output — or its mirror, a refusal to perform that reads as underachievement. Both share the same wiring: what you do and who you are were soldered together so early that separating them feels dangerous.
How it shows up in daily life
The Sunday-night dread that isn't about the work but about what the work means about you. The promotion that feels hollow. The project delayed not by difficulty but by the fear of its being judged. When identity and performance fuse, every task becomes a referendum on the self.
What unblocks it
Roles clear by deliberately doing things badly and surviving — shipping the imperfect draft, letting a result be mediocre. The report shows if function is your block; the Deep Dive finds what failure was made to mean.