The ObservatoryValues
Which principles are important to you, and how well you live in line with them.
Questions to ask yourself
- 1How clearly do you know which principles matter most to you?
- 2How well do you live by them in an ordinary week?
- 3Where in life does it grate the most between how you want to be and how things turn out?
- 4Which value is getting too little room right now?
- 5What is the first step toward living that value a little more?
In the app, you rate the area 0–10, answer the questions, and watch how your answers shift over time.
Getting started
Exercise
Values exercise
List ten things that feel important, narrow them to five core values, and see where your everyday life already lives by them.
20 min · Rationality
Tool
The values compass
A standing tool: hold a choice up against your values and see where the needle points.
8 min · Rationality
Exercise
This week's value
Choose a value that matters, and give it one concrete action this week.
10 min · Discipline
Exercise
When two values collide
The hard part is rarely knowing what you value. It is that two values pull in different directions at the same time. A method for choosing deliberately instead of being torn apart.
12 min · Rationality
Exercise
The conformity check
Most of us follow the herd more often than we think, even straight against our own values. Find your go-along zones.
10 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
The value or the impulse
Four everyday choices where the comfortable and what you actually value pull in different directions
11 min · Rationality
Exercise
The value gap
A short review of where you actually live by what you say you value, and where you don't
9 min · Rationality
Session
What you stand for
A values visualization that lets you see yourself live a whole day according to what matters most
8 min · Compassion
Tool
The values review
A recurring weekly check: which value guided you, and which one was forgotten.
7 min · Discipline
Exercise
Two minutes: you are more than this day
Write two lines about something that matters to you, and why, when the day makes you feel small
2 min · Compassion