What we map
Ten areas. One honest picture.
Six of these areas form the core assessment; the others give the comparison, regret, life-stage, and happiness research that puts the rest in context. Together they make up a library of 597 research-backed pages.
The six core areas
Covered directly by the assessment.
Money & Financial Reality
70This area covers income, savings, net worth, debt, and the gap between how secure your finances are and how secure they feel. The goal is not to tell …
Time & How You Use It
50This area covers how your hours are actually distributed across work, care, leisure, screens, and sleep — and how that compares to what large time-use…
Work & Career
60This area covers job satisfaction, meaning at work, income stability, and the distance between the work you expected to be doing and the work you are …
Relationships & Connection
60This area covers close friendships, loneliness, the strength of your support network, and how connected you feel now compared with the past. Decades o…
Health & Energy
40This area covers physical health, energy, and how much your body limits what you want to do. It is not a diagnostic tool and never will be; it places …
Purpose & Direction
50This area covers clarity about the future, whether your days reflect what matters to you, and the sense of moving toward something versus standing sti…
Context & research areas
How perception, timing, and the evidence base shape the rest.
Comparison, Perception & Self-Image
50This area covers the gap between where you are and where you think you are — the distortions created by social comparison, curated media, and an unrep…
Regret, Decisions & Life Paths
40This area covers the major studies on what people actually regret, how regret changes over a life, and the difference between the safe road and the bo…
Age & Life Stages
40This area covers how the typical shape of a life unfolds — what is statistically normal to have, feel, and be uncertain about at 25, 35, 45, 55, and b…
Happiness Research & What Actually Works
40This area covers what decades of wellbeing research actually find about what raises life satisfaction and what does not — separating the findings that…
Parenting & Family
20This area covers raising children, family relationships, caregiving, and the patterns that pass between generations. It treats parenting as one of the…
Learning & Growth
20This area covers how people actually learn skills, build and break habits, and keep growing across a lifetime. It separates the science of practice, m…
Technology & Attention
19This area covers screens, social media, notifications, and the competition for your attention — how much of it is normal, what it costs, and what the …
Society & Belonging
18This area covers community, trust, civic life, and the sense of belonging to something larger than your immediate circle. It looks at the measurable d…
Emotions & Inner Life
20This area covers the everyday emotional weather — fear, anger, sadness, joy, stress, and the running commentary of self-talk. Drawing on affective sci…