Questionnaires
Named FLAPSS instruments — curated sets of questions in our own wording, worked through end to end. Each one has a page showing what it asks and who has answered here. Nothing here is sorted by popularity.
General
The general questionnaire
Twelve questions in FLAPSS wording — taste, daily life, craft, failure, and who formed you. The place to start if you have no idea where to start.
12 questions 499 answers 1 member
Identity & self
An honest inventory
For a birthday, a quiet Sunday, or the week you realise you have been answering other people's priorities. Not a goal worksheet — the questions people answer differently at fifty than at twenty-five.
27 questions 2,190 answers 1 member
Reading & recommendations
Reading & recommendations
Five questions about books you pass on, books that changed you, gaps on your list, and long-form work that stayed with you.
5 questions 227 answers 1 member
Craft & work
Craft & work
Six questions about how you work, what your job really is, and the advice your field gets wrong.
6 questions 144 answers
Daily life
Daily life
Six questions about how your days start, what you refuse, and the small habits you keep.
6 questions 121 answers
Book authors
For book authors
Twenty questions about the book you wrote and the writer behind it — fifteen about the work, five about you.
20 questions
Death & what remains
Facing mortality
Six questions about regret, last chances, what remains, and how knowing you will die has changed how you live.
6 questions 111 answers
Failure & regret
Failure & second chances
Seven questions about setbacks, bad advice, embarrassment, apologies, and whether you would edit the past.
7 questions 1,009 answers 1 member
Relationships
Love, friendship & family
Five questions about who formed you, what friends are for, love, parenting, and who you turn to.
5 questions 354 answers
Identity & self
Who you are
Seven questions about how you describe yourself, what you fear, what you are proud of, and what happiness means to you.
7 questions 1,067 answers 1 member
Values & belief
What you believe
Eight questions about virtues, consensus, what being human means, who you admire, and when you changed your mind.
8 questions 782 answers
Time & hindsight
Time & hindsight
Seven questions about advice, getting older, what you would put on a billboard, and the happiest moments you remember.
7 questions 866 answers 2 members
Business & enterprise
Founders & CEOs
A practical record of judgment under uncertainty, scaling, people decisions, culture, and responsibility — useful without pretending success has one formula.
12 questions 166 answers
Teaching & development
Teachers who changed how people learn
Concrete teaching judgment: how understanding, trust, feedback, expectations, and lasting learning actually work.
12 questions 216 answers
Life experience & transition
Life after work: a retirement review
A long-view record of choices, work, relationships, enough, regret, joy, and what became clear only with time.
12 questions 1,291 answers
Public & community service
Public leadership & stewardship
Comparable answers about power, disagreement, accountability, institutional stewardship, and measurable public results.
12 questions 196 answers
Business & enterprise
Small-business owners & operators
Operating knowledge that high-growth founder stories omit: first customers, thin margins, delegation, pricing, and community.
12 questions 210 answers
Professional practice
Healthcare practice
How listening, uncertainty, error, systems, boundaries, and human contact shape good care.
12 questions 186 answers
Professional practice
Scientists & researchers
A public account of uncertainty, evidence, negative results, collaboration, explanation, and ethical limits.
12 questions 224 answers
Professional practice
Engineers & product builders
Trade-offs, failure modes, users, maintenance, simplicity, technical debt, and accountable sign-off.
12 questions 143 answers
Professional practice
Skilled trades & repair
How trained eyes judge quality, precision, tools, safety, apprenticeship, and repairability.
12 questions 162 answers
Teaching & development
Coaches & mentors
How potential is seen, standards are held, feedback lands, losses teach, and developmental relationships end.
12 questions 203 answers
Public & community service
Community & nonprofit organisers
How communities define need, build trust, share power, measure progress, resist burnout, and outlast founders.
12 questions 153 answers
Life experience & transition
Parents & caregivers
Attention, repair, independence, inherited practices, boundaries, and seeing the person beyond the care need.
12 questions 313 answers
Life experience & transition
Building a life in a new country
What migration teaches about language, work, belonging, home, recognition, and helping the next arrival.
12 questions 664 answers 1 member
Life experience & transition
Career changers
The push, pull, transferable skill, beginnerhood, hidden cost, identity shift, and evidence that a change was right.
12 questions 574 answers 1 member
Professional practice
Journalists & editors
Questioning, verification, correction, sources, attention, power, and what journalism systematically misses.
12 questions 142 answers
Professional practice
Artists & performers
Risk, audience, repetition, rejection, livelihood, influence, finishing, and how making changes the maker.
12 questions 234 answers
Professional practice
Farmers & food producers
Seasonal judgment, stewardship, uncertainty, technology, price, labour, and succession.
12 questions 148 answers
Public & community service
Emergency & first-response work
Calm, triage, trust, recovery, recurring system failures, and the invisible work between crises.
12 questions 184 answers
Professional practice
Hospitality & service leaders
Welcome, detail, recovery, team coordination, thin margins, customer limits, and invisible service craft.
12 questions 177 answers
Business & enterprise
Investors & capital allocators
Thesis, risk, refusal, management judgment, patience, changed facts, and fiduciary responsibility.
12 questions 131 answers