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Every prompt worth a stance
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 322 members
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 1,151 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
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Which book do you recommend most often to others, and what makes you pass it on?
What purchase of $100 or less has most improved your life in the last six months?
How has a setback or failure set you up for later success?
If you could put a message on a giant billboard, what would it say and why?
What is one of the best investments you have made — of money, time, or energy?
What is an unusual habit or small pleasure you are oddly fond of?
In the last five years, what new belief, behaviour, or habit has most improved your life?
What counsel would you give your twenty-year-old self — and what should they ignore?
What bad recommendations do people in your field repeat too often?
In the last five years, what have you become better at saying no to?
What does the first hour of your day look like?
When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do?
What small daily ritual do you keep that most people would consider a waste of time?
What is the worst advice you followed anyway?
Which documentary has stayed with you, and what did it change for you?
Which virtue do you think people overrate?
What does everyone in your world seem to agree on that you think is wrong?
What is the hardest thing that has happened to you, and what did you carry out of it?
What are you unwilling to optimise?
What made you stop something you were known for, and how did you know it was time?
What part of your job would surprise outsiders because it takes up so much of your time?
Which book reshaped how you think, and in what way?
What are you best at that nobody watching would notice?
What line from a parent, teacher, or mentor do you still repeat to yourself?