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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
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What ambition did you pursue because it was legible to others, and what did you quietly abandon once it was yours alone to judge?
What skill looked like a waste of time for years and later became the hinge everything turned on?
What would your thirty-year-old self tell your twenty-year-old self that your fifty-year-old self would still sign?
When you say you will "try" to change something, what are you actually refusing to decide?
Whose disagreement makes you sharper rather than defensive — and what do you read or listen to mainly to be corrected?
What local consensus in your field felt obviously true for years until one piece of evidence broke it?
What technology changed your sense of what a human being is for?
What humane limit have you placed on your own productivity, and how do you enforce it when the tools keep getting faster?
What part of your work should never be automated, even if it could be?
What did you put on hold for years, and what finally made you pick it up again — or decide not to?
Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?
Asked of someoneWhat problem in your life turned out to be a story your mind was telling, not a fact about the world?
Is there something you are still angry about years later — and what keeps it alive?
How would you sum yourself up in three words?
Asked of someoneWhat is the work only you can do, and what are you doing instead?
What have you been running from, and when did you first notice you were running?
As a child, what career or life did you imagine for yourself?
Asked of someoneIf your grandchildren could inherit one sentence of practical wisdom from your career, what would it be?
When were you most charged up in the last few years — and what were you actually doing, not what you wish you were doing?
What do you fear most?
Asked of someoneWhat commitment did you make that you would not extend if you had known at the outset what it would cost?
Who are the five people you spend the most time with, and are any of them making your future smaller?
Which trait in yourself do you like least?
Asked of someoneWhat will matter on your last ordinary Tuesday — not your last day, but a normal one?