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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 322 members

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 210 members

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 106 members

Daily life

Daily life

Six questions about how your days start, what you refuse, and the small habits you keep.

6 questions 121 answers 89 members

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 81 members

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 691 members

Relationships

Love, friendship & family

Five questions about who formed you, what friends are for, love, parenting, and who you turn to.

5 questions 353 answers 349 members

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 1,071 answers 619 members

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 773 answers 624 members

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 865 answers 752 members