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The Observatory

Life direction

The sense of knowing where you are headed and what you want to develop.

Questions to ask yourself

  • 1How clear does your direction feel? Do you know where you are headed?
  • 2What are you moving toward right now, if you're honest?
  • 3What do you want to be different a year from now?
  • 4What most keeps you from moving in that direction?
  • 5Which small choice this week would point in the right direction?

In the app, you rate the area 0–10, answer the questions, and watch how your answers shift over time.

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Getting started

Tool
The big crossroads
A recurring tool for the big crossroads — the job, the move, the relationship — which weighs the options against your own criteria rather than the mood of the day
10 min · Rationality
Self-assessment
Are you holding the wheel?
Do you steer your life, or does it happen to you? Four scales on perceived control, and where it does the most good.
4 min · Rationality
Exercise
The ikigai map
Map where what you love, what you are good at and what someone needs overlap. Not to find a magic answer, but to see where it is worth digging.
15 min · Rationality
Exercise
The next small step
Adjust the direction of your life, not with a grand goal, but with a small next step you actually take.
9 min · Discipline
Exercise
An action that counts
Turn a value you carry into a concrete step this week.
10 min · Discipline
Exercise
Best possible self
Write a future you in which things have gone as well as realistically possible, after hard work, not luck.
12 min · Rationality
Exercise
One minute: one value into the next hour
Choose one thing to care about in the coming hour, and carry it with you
1 min · Discipline
Exercise
Two minutes: more than one way
When you're stuck: find three ways to get closer to something you want, not just one
2 min · Rationality
Session
One decision, thought through once
A calm walk through a decision you keep going over: what actually needs deciding, the reasons against what you lean towards, and what would make you change your mind.
8 min · Rationality