What do you actually
care about?
Find out.
Fifteen minutes. No account. You leave with one page of what matters most, in your own words — for the people who may one day speak for you.
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Map of You in 15 seconds
- Who knows what you'd want? If it came to that. Most people can't answer under pressure.
- Twelve questions, your own words. Values, health, relationships, daily rhythms: seven parts of you.
- No machine rewrites a word. No account. Skip anything. Your answers never leave your device.
- Leave with one page to hand over. About 15 minutes. Print it for the people who'd speak for you.
- Map of You. What do you actually care about? mapofyou.com
You are not one thing.
You're a constellation.
Tap a facet — each is a part of you most profiles never ask about. Seven taps, and the shape of you starts to show.
What part of you wants to be understood first?
No right answers — only yours. The full reflection takes about fifteen minutes and stays private.
No account required. Fifteen minutes. Yours to keep.
Every quiz tells you you're special.
This one asks instead.
Most tools hand you a flattering label — Visionary, Advocate, Champion — and you feel seen for an afternoon. You can't act on a compliment. Map of You gives no label and no verdict. It asks the questions a good friend might, a few of them uncomfortable, and hands your answers back word for word. Nothing scores you and nothing rewrites you.
“You're an idealist — thoughtful, rare, a little misunderstood.”
True enough to like. Too vague to use.
Psychologists call it the Barnum effect“If you had six months to live, what would you stop doing first? What does that tell you?”
You write the answer. Your page keeps it exactly as you wrote it.
See a full sample mapThat's why a map is worth handing to your family, your doctor, whoever may one day speak for you. A compliment tells them nothing about what you'd want. Your own answers, in your own words, tell them far more.
Not a form.
A conversation.
Three steps, about fifteen minutes. What comes back could only have come from you.
Start with a question
Not a checklist — a real question, like “When you imagine a good day ten years from now, who's there?” Your answers seed the map.
Step through each oneYour map takes shape
Across seven dimensions: values, communication, relationships, health, creativity, goals, and daily rhythms. A portrait of what you actually prioritize.
See all seven dimensionsYou get language for it
A one-page summary in plain words — for your family, your doctor, or anyone who will one day make decisions on your behalf. Your map is where a care plan starts.
Read a finished pageThree things worth knowing
about yourself.
Most people can't answer “what do you want?” under pressure. Your map answers it before the pressure arrives.
Your values map
What you actually prioritize — health, relationships, autonomy, security, meaning — in your own words, as you actually live it.
Seed yours with five wordsWhat matters in healthcare decisions
If it ever came to a choice between independence and intensive treatment, which way do you lean? Your map records the answer while it's still easy to give.
Where that answer leadsHow to communicate them
A one-page summary in plain language — for your family, your doctor, or whoever will one day decide on your behalf.
See the languageWhat you'll actually map — and the research behind it.
Map of You's questions draw on four research-backed frameworks. Each asks a different question. Nothing here scores you against them.
What is worth waking up for
The Japanese concept of ikigai sits at the intersection of four questions: What you love. What you're good at. What the world needs. What you can sustain. The overlap — your ikigai — is the thing that gives ordinary days meaning. In a 2008 Tohoku University cohort study of over 40,000 Japanese adults, a sense of ikigai was associated with lower all-cause and cardiovascular mortality.
Reveals: purpose + direction
Source: Ohsaki Study, 2008The 24 traits that define your best self
Developed at the University of Pennsylvania's Positive Psychology Center, the VIA Classification identifies 24 character strengths — from curiosity and fairness to gratitude and bravery — that predict job satisfaction, life meaning, and wellbeing independently of IQ or personality type. Research published in Frontiers in Psychology found VIA strengths provide incremental predictive validity over and above the Big Five personality traits.
Reveals: who you are at your best
Source: VIA Institute on CharacterThe most scientifically validated personality model
Openness. Conscientiousness. Extraversion. Agreeableness. Neuroticism. The Big Five (OCEAN) has the strongest cross-cultural replication of any personality framework — 50+ years of research, validated across 56 countries. Where VIA asks what energizes you, OCEAN describes the stable behavioral tendencies that shape how you move through the world: how you handle stress, relate to others, and approach the unknown.
Reveals: stable personality patterns
Reference: Big Five (OCEAN)What you actually prioritize under pressure
Values clarification research — including the Schwartz Theory of Basic Human Values, validated in 82 countries — shows that stated values and enacted values diverge sharply without structured reflection. The process of forcing trade-offs (autonomy vs. security; tradition vs. novelty) surfaces your real hierarchy, not the socially desirable one. This is the layer that matters most in healthcare decisions and advance care planning.
Reveals: your real decision hierarchy
Reference: Schwartz Basic ValuesNo single framework captures the full picture. Personality tests tell you how you're wired; values assessments tell you what you're pointed toward; ikigai tells you what makes it feel worth it. Map of You borrows its questions from all four, and your page is your own answers, grouped by dimension — specific enough to hand to a physician, a caregiver, or someone who will one day make decisions on your behalf.
Sources: VIA Institute on Character; Schwartz Theory of Basic Human Values (82-country validation); Big Five meta-analysis (McCrae & Costa); Ikigai and longevity research, Tohoku University 2008.
See a finished pageSeven dimensions of you.
The assessment covers the parts of you that most profiles never ask about. Each dimension has its own questions — tap one to try its question below.
Values & Beliefs
What matters most to you. Your non-negotiables.
Try its questionCommunication Style
How you give and receive information. Direct or nuanced. Formal or casual.
Try its questionRelationships & Boundaries
Who you let in. How close. What you protect.
Try its questionHealth & Wellness
Your body, your rhythms, your care preferences.
Try its questionCreative Expression
What moves you. Music, art, craft, writing, making.
Try its questionLife Goals
Where you're headed. What you're building toward.
Try its questionDaily Rhythms
Morning person or night owl. When you focus. When you rest.
Try its questionOne page that sounds like you.
Not a score. Not a type. A short document in plain language — specific enough to guide a doctor, gentle enough to hand to your family. Here's a sample.
Sample What I care about — Maya MercerWords that feel most like me: Craft · Honesty · Independence · Family · Quiet
Values & Beliefs
Honesty over harmony. Say the hard thing, kindly.
Communication Style
Direct, in person. No hints, no hallway news.
Relationships & Boundaries
A small circle, held tightly. My husband reads my silences.
Health & Wellness
Morning walks are non-negotiable. I fear losing my independence more than illness.
Creative Expression
Sunday ceramics — the one hour that is only mine.
Life Goals
A garden studio. Teach my granddaughter to throw a bowl.
Daily Rhythms
Sharpest before nine. Guard the quiet; big decisions after coffee.
In her own words · about 15 minutes Begin yoursMaya Mercer is a fictional composite. Your page holds whatever you write, word for word, grouped the same way. Yours stays private until you choose to share it.
Practice the values conversation
before the real one.
A page is half of it. The other half is telling your partner what matters to you, and hearing what matters to them. Four invented partners, about five minutes each: you answer in your own words, and a checker in your browser shows which needs your words met. It is scripted, not an AI, and nothing you type leaves your device.
The kind of questions
nobody asks you.
Step through ten real prompts from the assessment, drawn from across your map's seven dimensions. No right answers. No scoring.
No right answers. No scoring. Your responses stay private. Fifteen minutes for the full assessment.
Your map. Your rules.
Your identity data belongs to you. Three things that don't change.
You own it
Your map belongs to you. It lives on your device. Print it or copy it as text and take it anywhere.
Read the network privacy policyYou decide who sees it
Nothing leaves your device unless you print it, copy it, or hand it to someone yourself.
Who can see my map?No selling. No ads.
Your map is not a product. No surveillance, no data brokering, no dark patterns.
The manifesto behind that promiseStart your map.
The full reflection is here — seven dimensions, private, about fifteen minutes. You answer in your own words, and you get one page you can print and hand to the people who would have to speak for you. Warm up below: pick up to five words that feel most like you.
Your first coordinates appear here.
Picking a word updates only what is kept on this device. Nothing is sent anywhere.
No account, about fifteen minutes. Your answers stay on your device — nothing is uploaded, and nothing is rewritten by a machine.
Your map connects to
the care you'll actually need.
If your assessment surfaces concerns about aging — your own or a parent's — there's a next step.
co-op.care — care that works for your family
co-op.care is a worker-owned home care cooperative forming now in Boulder, Colorado; its care hasn’t started yet. It is being built so caregivers earn fair wages and real ownership, and families get consistent, accountable support. Your values map is where a care plan can start.
Start your care assessmentNaming what matters is step one. CareGoals puts it into Care Wishes for the person who would speak for you: tap-only cards, two people at one phone, no account.
Paying for care? ComfortCard helps families check, case by case, whether pre-tax dollars can pay for care.
Before you ask.
The things people want to know before they put themselves on a page.
How long does the reflection take?
About fifteen minutes, and you can pause anytime — your answers save on your own device as you go, so you can close the tab and come back. There's no account to create.
Is this a personality test?
No. Personality tests assign you a type. Map of You is a guided reflection — it draws on research-backed frameworks like VIA character strengths, the Big Five, Schwartz values, and ikigai, but what you get back is written in your own words, not a label.
Who can see my map?
You. Your map belongs to you — print it, copy it as text, clear it from your browser, or hand it to the people you choose. It is never sold, never used for ads, and never shown to anyone without your say-so.
Is this therapy or medical advice?
No. Map of You is a values-reflection tool, not a medical or psychological assessment. It doesn't diagnose or treat anything — and if something heavy surfaces, please bring it to a licensed professional.
What exactly do I get at the end?
A one-page map: what you value, how you communicate, what matters in your health decisions — and the language for sharing it. See the sample above; it's specific enough to hand to your doctor, your partner, or anyone who may one day speak for you.
Can my map follow me into care?
By hand, when you choose. Print it or copy it as text and give it to a care team or to the person who would speak for you. There is no care profile to sign in to: your map stays on this device. If care is on your mind, co-op.care has an assessment, and CareGoals turns what matters into Care Wishes.
Who makes Map of You, and why?
Map of You is part of the SolvingHealth family-care network. If your map ever surfaces a care need, it can be a head start with co-op.care — instead of a story you have to tell twice.