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Ways through the archive: where you happen to be right now, who said something, how old they were at the time, when it was said, and what they were asked. Every list is in a fixed order and none of them is a chart — there is nothing here telling you what is popular, because that is not a fact about the answers.
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Short reading paths, picked by hand rather than sorted by anything. Questions appear on more than one, the way a book sits on more than one shelf, and each path stays in the order it was written.
By what they do
The domain a person is on the record in. Recorded for public figures only.
By how old they were
Their age when the words were said, not their age now. Bands, because most sources give a year and nothing finer.
By when it was said
Spans rather than decades, cut where the record is deep enough to read.
By what they were asked
The question bank's own families, in the order the bank was written.
- Identity & self 14 questions
- Values & belief 13 questions
- Change of mind 1 question
- Failure & regret 9 questions
- Craft & work 36 questions
- Money & investment 4 questions
- Taste & recommendation 6 questions
- Relationships 5 questions
- Time & hindsight 8 questions
- Death & what remains 13 questions
- Daily life 9 questions
- Attention & the world 8 questions
By the questionnaire it comes from
Formats that have put the same questions to a different person for years. Read what a set asks, or take one and answer it yourself.
Looking for one person? The directory shows a changing few, and searches the rest.