Values · Card Sorting Exercise

You Don't Know What
You Actually Live For.

Not the values you'd write on a CV. The ones that actually drive your decisions — when no one is watching and the choice is hard. Most people have never looked.

Step 01
Select 15 values that resonate with you from a deck of 40.
Step 02
Rank your 15 by dragging them into order of priority.
Step 03
Receive your top 5 with a deep psychological analysis.
No account required. No data stored. Takes about 5 minutes.
Step 1 of 2
Select exactly 15 values that resonate.
Don't overthink it. Your first instinct is usually more honest than your considered response. Select what pulls at you — not what you think you should value.
Selected 0 Need exactly 15 to continue
Step 2 of 2
Rank your 15 from most to least important.
Drag to reorder, or use the arrows. The hardest question: when two values conflict — which one wins?
The honest test: imagine a real situation where two of these values pull in opposite directions. Which do you actually follow? That's your answer. Not the one that sounds better.
Mapping your value profile
"He who has a why can bear almost any how."
Your Core Values
What Your Values Say About You

Your Top 5 — In Depth
Value Tensions

Where your values pull against each other.

The most revealing thing about your value profile isn't the values themselves — it's the tensions between them. These are the situations where you'll feel the most internal conflict.

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Your values — applied to your actual life.

Knowing your top 5 is the beginning. The deep analysis takes your specific combination and maps out what it means for how you make decisions, who you clash with, and where the gap between your stated and lived values probably lives.

  • Personalized analysis of your exact top 5 combination — not a generic archetype
  • Career paths and work environments most aligned with your value structure
  • The relationship dynamics your values make easy — and the ones they make hard
  • Your most likely self-deception: where this profile rationalizes vs. actually lives its values
  • A 20-question self-interview to test whether your life currently reflects your values
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Further Reading
The most useful books on values aren't self-help — they're the philosophical and psychological works that take the question seriously.
For understanding your value hierarchy
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
Frankl's logotherapy emerged from his observation that people who survive extreme suffering are those with a clear hierarchy of meaning. His framework for understanding what we actually live for remains the most rigorous available.
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On the gap between stated and lived values
The Courage to Be Disliked
Kishimi & Koga
Adlerian psychology presented as a dialogue. Its central argument — that we often choose not to live our values as a form of self-protection — is directly relevant to any serious values work.
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