High fit

Sync measures how well your inner world matches your outer world — the alignment between what you feel, say, and do. For years, Ben Affleck's inner sense of who his friends were was completely out of sync with how those people actually behaved. When the phones went silent after his movies bombed, it forced a painful recalibration. By the time the calls came back after his directorial comeback, he had synced up — his inner map matched reality, and he wasn't fooled by the flood of renewed attention.