The questions are grouped in six sections. You do not have to finish them in one sitting. You do not have to answer them in order. The ones you skip are as revealing as the ones you answer.
How to run it
- Set aside forty to sixty minutes when you will not be interrupted.
- Have paper and a pen. Not a phone. The friction of writing by hand is part of the tool.
- Answer honestly. If your first answer sounds like something you would say at a dinner party, write a second one that is more true.
- Skip anything that feels too big to answer today. Come back to those. The ones you skip repeatedly are the ones that matter most.
- Do not share your answers unless you want to. This is between you and the paper.
The interactive tool is returning shortly.
I am rebuilding the forty-question reading view so it runs cleanly on your own machine, with nothing submitted anywhere. It will be back on this page soon. In the meantime the questions themselves have not changed, and the intent of this page has not changed.
If you want to sit with the questions today, the youth companion is live — fifteen questions, plainer language, same intent. It works just as well for adults who want a shorter pass. Print it, or work through it on screen.
If you have twenty minutes instead of an hour
Skip to section three. The non-negotiables. Six questions on what you will not do, what you cannot respect, and what you would refuse for money. Those six alone are worth an hour of most other reading.
If you are twelve to eighteen
Use the youth version. Fifteen questions, plainer language, same intent. Some of the forty are aimed at working adults and will not fit yet.