Doing the True Will requires self-knowledge. In particular, we need to be aware of our core values in life in order to make good decisions and do what we truly want to do. So, do you know what your deepest personal values are and how you prioritize them? If you are uncertain, you can take the following quiz.
Identify Your Core Values Now!
By answering 20 simple questions
Of course, this test covered only a few out of hundreds of different value dimensions, but based on your results, you can now see whether you are
- more open to change (freedom, hedonism, stimulation) vs. more conservative (security, tradition, conformity),
- more focused on self-improvement (achievement, power) vs. more focused on self-transcendence (benevolence, universalism),
- more focused on yourself (freedom, hedonism, stimulation, achievement, power) vs. more focused on others/society (security, tradition, conformity, benevolence, universalism),
- more self-expansive and anxiety-free (freedom, hedonism, stimulation, benevolence, universalism) vs. more self-protective and anxiety-controlling (power, security, tradition, conformity).
To be fully transparent here, my personal value hierarchy looks like this:
- Freedom (100%). Above all, I want to be free in my thinking and doing: ad libertatem naturae!
- Achievement (80%). The path of skill development toward mastery is what I live for.
- Hedonism (70%). Thinking, working, training, non-doing, and non-thinking are my main sources of pleasure.
- Stimulation (70%). New exciting challenges are less important to me than my everyday pleasures.
- Benevolence (70%). I like to be kind to the people around me.
- Universalism (50%). I care less about strangers and the environment than about myself and close others.
- Power (50%). I value wealth, influence, and social status about as much as universal well-being.
- Tradition (30%). I’m pretty indifferent to cultural customs.
- Security (30%). I see safety and security as dangerous to my freedom and my desire for stimulation.
- Conformity (20%). I detest obedience and I have no desire to fit in with any group.
Now tell me in the comments below: How does your value hierarchy look like? Did your quiz results surprise you?
Further Reading
- Willpower Condensed
- These Four Personal Values Promote Happiness
- Determine Your Life Priorities to Do Your True Will
- Why Personality Tests Do Not Enhance Self-Knowledge
- How to Use Hate to Do Your True Will
- Why the True Will Is Not a Free Will
- Alan Watts on Self-Discipline and Self-Acceptance
Apparently, these are my quiz results. I tried to be as honest as possible even if I didn’t always like the answer.
Achievement-60%
Benevolence-70%
Conformity-60%
Freedom-70%
Hedonism-90%
Power-70%
Security-60%
Stimulation-60%
Tradition-60%
Universalism-60%
I have found out more about myself with this quiz so thanks! I do think that some of these percentage ratings are not correct, e.g. I clicked “sometimes I participate in customs, traditions etc.” and I get a 60% rating, although I’d rate myself around 40%, because I don’t actively practice them most of the time (only go to church sometimes to help out because nobody else will). I definetely want to get my Achievement percentage up.
Nice to see an article where readers can take part in and find out more about themselves.
Have a nice day!
Legion
Thanks a lot for sharing your results! I’m still tweaking the rating system, so your feedback is highly valuable: the algorithm for the Tradition value was indeed a bit off (as were some others).
— Dom
Hi Dom,
these are my results and yeah the hedonism is strong with me!
Achievement40%
Benevolence60%
Conformity50%
Freedom90%
Hedonism100%
Power50%
Security60%
Stimulation50%
Tradition40%
Universalism10%
You did a great job on creating this quiz, keep on rolling my friend.
Thanks for commenting, man!
— Dom