The question is not who you should be. It is what you actually value, and how much of your life right now reflects it. That gap, once named, changes how you make decisions.
The assessment presents values as choices, not checkboxes. You rank them against each other, which forces real prioritization. What you say matters and what you actually reach for when something costs you something are often different. This surfaces the second one.
For each value you hold highly, the assessment also asks how you are living it. The result is a gap score: values you prioritize but are not expressing, and values you are expressing that you did not know mattered this much. That gap is where most of the friction in life comes from.
The next decision, whether career, relationship, or direction, is clearer when you know what you are actually weighing. What you value, ranked and visible, takes the guesswork out of why something feels right or wrong.
This is an example of a Core Values result. The integrity score shows how closely what you say matters matches how you are actually living. Each value shows two bars: priority (how highly you rank it) and lived (how fully you are expressing it).
Your result also includes a written values statement, a tension analysis (which of your values pull against each other), and a reflection that shows you where to focus first. The full paid report deepens this into a complete portrait.
Each assessment draws on established psychological research, specifically the frameworks that clinicians and researchers actually use to understand how values, beliefs, and patterns form and operate.
Shalom Schwartz's circumplex model maps 19 universal value types and their relationships: which values support each other, which sit in tension. The most empirically validated values framework in existence, tested across 80+ countries.
Deci and Ryan's model of what humans intrinsically need — autonomy, competence, relatedness. The foundation for understanding why certain environments drain you and others don't, regardless of external reward.
Bowlby and Ainsworth's framework for how early relational experiences form the internal working model that runs adult relationships. How you love, how you protect yourself when it gets close, how you respond to uncertainty in relationships.
Beck's model of the core beliefs — about self, others, and the world — that filter experience before conscious thought. The framework underlying CBT and schema therapy, applied here to surface the beliefs making decisions before you do.
The Core Values assessment takes 12 minutes. It surfaces what you actually prioritize, ranked, scored, and held up against how you are living. Free. No account required. The clearest starting point for everything else.