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What Are Your Core Values? (Find Out With This Quiz!)

May 22, 2017 Dom 26 Comments

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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!

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  2. Benevolence 0%
  3. Conformity 0%
  4. Freedom 0%
  5. Hedonism 0%
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  8. sex 0%
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  10. Tradition 0%
  11. Universalism 0%
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    Do you care about safety and security?

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    Do you want to be free and autonomous in your actions?

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    Do you find it important that people follow rules?

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    Do you love engaging in new and exciting activities?

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    Do you cherish cultural traditions?

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    Do you seek pleasure and good feelings?

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    Do you try to be kind to the people around you?

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    Do you chase goals to be more successful?

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    Are animal rights and environmental concerns important to you?

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    Do you want to be powerful, prestigious, and dominant over others?

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    Are the harmony and stability of society important to you?

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    Do you want to be a free and independent thinker?

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    Do you try not to violate social expectations or norms so that you don’t upset others?

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    Do you continuously seek out new exciting challenges?

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    Do you follow traditional cultural customs and practices?

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    Do you place importance on having fun and a good time?

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    Do you want to be caring and helpful to people close to you?

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    Do you take your competence and skill development seriously?

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    Do you care about tolerance, equality, and the welfare of humanity?

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    Is it your goal to achieve high social status and great wealth?

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    Are you male or female?

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core values
How important is power (wealth, influence, social status) to you?

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:

  1. Freedom (100%). Above all, I want to be free in my thinking and doing: ad libertatem naturae!
  2. Achievement (80%). The path of skill development toward mastery is what I live for.
  3. Hedonism (70%). Thinking, working, training, non-doing, and non-thinking are my main sources of pleasure.
  4. Benevolence (70%). I like to be kind to the people around me.
  5. Stimulation (60%). New exciting challenges are less important to me than my everyday pleasures.
  6. Power (50%). I value wealth, influence, and social status about as much as universal well-being.
  7. Universalism (50%). I care less about strangers and the environment than about myself and close others.
  8. Tradition (30%). I’m pretty indifferent to cultural customs.
  9. Security (30%). I see safety and security as dangerous to my freedom and my desire for stimulation.
  10. 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

  • On the Importance of Values in Life
  • 5 Questions You Can Ask to Clarify Your Values
  • These Four Personal Values Promote Happiness
  • Determine Your Life Priorities to Do Your True Will
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Comments

  1. Legion says

    May 26, 2017 at 8:26 am

    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

    Reply
    • Dom says

      May 26, 2017 at 3:59 pm

      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

      Reply
  2. Andy says

    May 30, 2017 at 6:41 am

    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.

    Reply
    • Dom says

      May 30, 2017 at 8:07 am

      Thanks for commenting, man!

      — Dom

      Reply
  3. donnie conyers says

    October 22, 2017 at 7:26 am

    Achievement40%
    Benevolence40%
    Conformity0%
    Freedom100%
    Hedonism0%
    Power10%
    Security0%
    Stimulation20%
    Tradition20%
    Universalism50%
    [Gender]50%

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  4. Mat says

    December 27, 2017 at 11:57 pm

    Achievement70%
    Benevolence60%
    Conformity50%
    Freedom80%
    Hedonism90%
    Power30%
    Security60%
    Stimulation40%
    Tradition40%
    Universalism70%
    [Gender]50%

    Thanks for the quiz.

    Reply
  5. Josephine Ivey says

    January 4, 2018 at 3:18 pm

    I really enjoyed the quiz it what I needed to help me finish the course I was taking on leader ship one my core value report we had to write a summary ten core value with foot notes and scripture the co-inside with each one, my thanks to who ever this may concern, I must say this has really helped in getting my lesson in on time. and may God forever bless you.

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    • Dom says

      January 4, 2018 at 5:04 pm

      Glad to be of help and thank you for your comment, Josephine.

      Reply
  6. Michael says

    February 9, 2018 at 7:41 am

    Apologies in advance, I’ve only jut come across your site, so I haven’t felt the tone of the site out, but I think for sake of clarity clarity, I’d like to provide examples of a some terms in this quiz where some definitions (yours would be fine) would help me be more certain of answering the questions in such a way as to better reflect what it is I might be.

    Equality: Of what? Outcome (genocidal)? Opportunity (tyrannical)? Before the Law (Best option)?
    What’s your definition of anarchist? Rothbardian/Hoppean? Some dickhead throwing bins through a Starbucks window?

    Question 18 is interesting because I remember reading that often the most dominant thing to be in any given situation is indomitable. I’d rather be the immovable object than the unstoppable force because given my voluntaryist leanings, I don’t want to force anyone to do anything.

    Achievement60%
    Benevolence50%
    Conformity60%
    Freedom70%
    Hedonism50%
    Power50%
    Security60%
    Stimulation50%
    Tradition40%
    Universalism50%
    [Gender]50%

    Reply
    • Dom says

      February 9, 2018 at 12:00 pm

      Hey Michael, thank you for your insightful comment!

      I kept the word ‘equality’ in the question “Do you care about tolerance, equality, and the welfare of humanity?” unspecified in order to trigger subjectively biased associations with universal welfare. For example, socialists, libertarians, and conservatives may have different opinions about what kind of equality (legal, political, economic, social, etc.) is most effective, but the underlying personal concern for universal well-being, contrasted with selective benevolence, is orthogonal to what one’s definition of equality entails.

      The notion of ‘anarchist’ used in one of the answer options was based on a traditional form of individualist anarchism, but I agree that this may be misleading for people familiar with the philosophy of anarchism, especially today where theories like anarcho-capitalism are becoming increasingly popular. I have now removed the word ‘anarchist’ and rephrased that answer option.

      Reply
    • Dom says

      February 9, 2018 at 12:49 pm

      By the way, to make “the tone of the site” as transparent as I can, I have recently compiled The Mindcoolness Declaration of Ideology.

      Reply
  7. Tsegaab Danano says

    March 13, 2018 at 10:48 am

    This is the stupidest quiz ever. You can’t judge the core values of someone with few obscure questions. Total waste of time!!

    Reply
    • Dom says

      March 13, 2018 at 2:23 pm

      Depends on what you expect from a quiz, I guess. What exactly makes it so stupid? The amount of questions, their phrasing, a bias in the answer options, the choice of value categories, the underlying algorithm, or everything together?

      Nonetheless, I would agree, for example, that the abstract comparison of different values is pretty stupid, because reflecting on values outside of a specific context makes for bad philosophizing that is either fruitless (if it leads to nothing) or counterproductive (if it leads to people getting emotionally invested in abstract principles).

      Reply
  8. Subir Nag says

    March 14, 2018 at 2:30 am

    My Results:

    1 Freedom 90%
    2 Benevolence 80%
    3 Universalism 80%
    4 Achievement 70%
    5 Hedonism 70%
    6 Security 60%
    7 Conformity 50%
    8 Stimulation 50%
    9 Tradition 40%
    10 Power 20%

    I am trying to decide on the next course of action, next direction of life; professionally. And I hope to get a better understanding of my core values which may be helpful in that endeavour.

    Reply

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