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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, 782 answers on the record, from 630 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?

Theodore Roosevelt

26th President of the United States, 1901–1909; Governor of New York 1899–1900; Assistant Secretary of the Navy 1897–1898

Recorded · Mental Floss · 2023

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which…
Tegan Quin

Singer-songwriter, one half of Tegan and Sara

Recorded · Pride · 2022

I have a lot of compassion for everybody, even fake Tegan, honestly. Life’s hard. The world’s hard. Navigating this is hard. We all have issues.
Whitney Cummings

Comedian and writer; co-creator of 2 Broke Girls

Recorded · NewBeauty · 2026

I think stress ages us the most, and stressing about food is the worst. I eat a high-fat diet because it gives me the most energy and makes me think about food less.
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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? 19
  8. When did you last change your mind about something important? 28

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