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Most questions are open to any member. Questionnaires are named sets worked through end to end. Read what is on record, then leave yours — passing is free and permanent.
Questionnaires
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 accomplishment matters most to you?
Asked of someoneWhat lesson has mattered most in your life?
Asked of someoneHow much should instinct count in big decisions?
Asked of someoneWhat one change would most improve the quality of your daily life?
Asked of someoneIf you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Asked of someoneIf you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?
Asked of someoneWhat fills you with the most pride?
Asked of someoneWhat counsel has proved most valuable to you?
Asked of someoneDoes the thought of dying frighten you?
Asked of someoneWhat kind of death would you consider a good one?
Asked of someoneWhat do you believe happens when we die?
Asked of someoneWhat does happiness look like for you when life is going well?
Asked of someoneHow would you want people to remember you?
Asked of someoneWhat would you most want to leave your children?
Asked of someoneWhat period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?
Asked of someoneWhat do you expect to regret, and is there still time to do something about it?
What would you say to somebody you love if you knew it was your last chance — and have you said it?
What would you want written on your gravestone?
Has knowing you will die changed how you live?
What are you still hoping to finish?
If you had only one day left, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid?
If you had to tell a reader what this book is really about — beyond the synopsis — what would you say?
Where did the idea for this book begin? Was there an experience, question, person, event, image, or moment that set it in motion?
Why did this particular book need to exist? What did you want to explore, understand, challenge, preserve, or communicate?