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An example map.
This is what a finished consciousness map can look like — built from the answers of three fictional personas. Switch between them, or turn on comparison mode to see two maps side by side.
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Anna, 34, writer and editor. Slow mornings, long essays, mountains and one-on-one conversations.
World of interestsImages of the dreamPreferences & aestheticsStrengths & energyInner questions & contradictions
How to read it
- · Centre — the self.
- · Five large nodes — the blocks of the questionnaire.
- · Mid nodes — recurring phrases from the answers, sized by weight.
- · Small nodes — the words that anchor those phrases.
- · Colour ties every branch back to its block.
Make your own
Twenty-three questions, 40–60 quiet minutes. Your answers build a map you can return to, change, and use as the starting point of every technique.
Start the questionnaire →What Anna wrote.
World of interests
- — Cognitive science. Architecture. Long-form essays. Slow design. Mountain hiking.
- — Reading at dawn. Walking without a destination. Cooking with one ingredient at a time.
- — Tarkovsky films. Anne Carson. The Ezra Klein show. Anything on attention and memory.
- — Italian. Cello. Neuroscience of learning. Letterpress printing.
Images of the dream
- — Morning light in a stone house. Writing for two hours. Lunch with my partner. A studio with cold light.
- — Lisbon in winter. The Atlantic. A small flat above a bakery.
- — Independent research and writing. A quiet practice that helps people think better.
- — Slower, more honest, less performative. Steady output. Patient relationships.
Preferences & aesthetics
- — Linen. Stone. Pale wood. Empty walls. Sea air through open windows.
- — Hannah Arendt. My grandmother. A teacher who listened more than she spoke.
- — Freedom, growth, closeness, safety, recognition — in that order.
- — One-on-one talks at the edge of evening. Long silences allowed.
Strengths & energy
- — Editing a long piece. Listening to a friend at midnight. Teaching one person something I love.
- — Clarity. Patience under pressure. Finding the question behind the question.
- — Slow mornings, walks, real conversations charge me. Crowds and small talk drain.
- — How to read for understanding, not for performance.
Inner questions & contradictions
- — Distraction. Living too fast. Losing my own voice in other people's noise.
- — I value depth but fill my days with shallow tasks.
- — What does honest work look like, if no one applauds it?
- — Fear of being unseen. Old conditioning to please. Habit of overworking.