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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 on the record, from 624 members. Every question is asked in FLAPSS wording — nobody answers as anybody else.

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What belief do you hold that most people around you would reject or find surprising?

Nelson Mandela

President of South Africa, 1994–1999; political prisoner 1962–1990

Many people in this country have paid the price before me and many will pay the price after me.

Recorded · Nelson Mandela Foundation · 2010

Norman Borlaug

Plant pathologist and agronomist; Nobel Peace Prize, 1970

I am now convinced that what began as a biotechnology bandwagon some 15 years ago has developed some invaluable new scientific methodologies and products which need active financial and…

Recorded · AgBioWorld · 1997

David Vélez

Co-founder and chief executive of Nubank

Pix is probably the most successful payment infrastructure run by a government in history.

Recorded · Fortune · 2023

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Every question in this questionnaire

  1. Which virtue do you think people overrate? 10
  2. What does everyone in your world seem to agree on that you think is wrong? 80
  3. What are you unwilling to optimise? 30
  4. What has life taught you about being human? 15
  5. What trait do you most dislike in other people? 193
  6. Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them? 407
  7. What belief do you hold that most people around you would reject or find surprising? 10
  8. When did you last change your mind about something important? 28

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