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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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Which misconception about learning did experience force you to abandon?
How do you earn the trust of a student who expects school or teachers to fail them?
How do you respond to unequal needs without quietly lowering expectations for some students?
How do you give corrective feedback that changes the work without making the student feel diminished?
What do you hope students carry from your classroom that will never appear on a test?
Looking back, which parts of your working life mattered, and which parts only seemed important at the time?
Which decision paid off only after many years, when its value could not yet be proved?
What belief about work, family, money, or success took you longest to recognise as wrong?
When did you first understand what enough meant for you?
Which relationships did you tend well, and which did you neglect while other things felt urgent?
What became visible only after your working life slowed down or ended?
What responsibility of public office matters most to you when nobody is watching?
What is a lawful use of power that you would still refuse as wrong?
How should a public leader explain a necessary choice whose costs fall unfairly on some people?
When constituents strongly disagree with your judgment, what should make you hold your position and what should make you change it?
Which result should the public use to decide whether your service was effective?
What should be stronger in the institution after you leave, even if nobody credits you for it?
How did you earn your first customers, and what did they teach you that your plan did not?
When did cash become dangerously tight, and what choice helped the business survive?
How did you learn what your work should cost, and when have you priced it badly?
What did hiring your first employee require you to stop controlling yourself?
What does your business owe the place and people that support it?
Which piece of standard business advice is least useful to a small operator?
What do patients tell you when they feel heard that they do not tell you otherwise?