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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 teacher, parent, coach, or friend most made you who you are, and what did you learn from them?
Who are the five people you spend the most time with, and are any of them making your future smaller?
Which quality in your friends matters most to you?
Asked of someoneCan you describe a moment when someone's small act of kindness changed the direction of your life?
How would you describe what love feels like to you?
Asked of someoneWhat has been most rewarding about being a parent?
Asked of someoneWhen you need counsel, who is the first person you call?
Asked of someoneWhen have you kept the wrong person in a role for too long, and what prevented you from acting sooner?
How do you earn the trust of a student who expects school or teachers to fail them?
Which relationships did you tend well, and which did you neglect while other things felt urgent?
What did hiring your first employee require you to stop controlling yourself?
What do patients tell you when they feel heard that they do not tell you otherwise?
What contribution from a collaborator changed the direction of your work?
What do you notice in a person before they can see that ability in themselves?
How do you know when your role in somebody's development is finished?
What action builds trust slowly but loses it quickly if neglected?
What form of attention has mattered most to the person you care for?
How do you protect somebody's independence while remaining responsible for their care?
What do you wish other people understood about the person beyond their age, illness, or need?
What would you give somebody arriving now that nobody could give you when you arrived?
How do you decide that a claim is sufficiently verified to publish?
Which important reality does the news cycle systematically make harder to see?
What helps the public trust instructions during an emergency?
What small act makes a guest feel genuinely welcomed rather than processed?