Five pillars
Find where attention matters most
You rate health, money and work, relationships, outlook on life, and beauty twice, for how each is going and how much it matters to you. The report starts with the part where what you want and what you have are furthest apart.
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First, your age group
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How old are you?
We ask because the money questions are scored a little differently from age 62, and Five pillars is built for adults.
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What decades of research reveal
The findings below come from published research on how life is going across relationships, health, purpose, and money. They are patterns across large groups, not predictions about any one person.
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Stronger relationships, 50% greater likelihood of survival
Across 148 studies, people with stronger social relationships had a 50% greater likelihood of survival. This link is not proof that one caused the other.
Holt-Lunstad, Smith & Layton (2010). PLoS Medicine 7(7), e1000316.
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At least 2 hours a week in nature, good health
In one large survey, at least 2 hours a week in nature was associated with more reports of good health and well-being, however the time was divided. That association is not proof of cause.
White et al. (2019). Scientific Reports 9, 7730.
What parts of life does it cover?
Five pillars covers health, relationships, beauty in art and nature, money and work, and outlook on life. Each one is rated twice, for how it is going and how much it matters to you, and the two together are what make the report worth reading.
Health
Your body and mind, and how they’ve been doing lately
Relationships
The people closest to you—family, friends, a partner, or chosen family
Beauty
Art, music, and nature—and how much of them reaches your life
Money and work
A reasonable standard of living, and work that satisfies you—paid or unpaid
Outlook on life
A way of seeing life, religious or not, that helps you through hard times
What is Five pillars for?
51 questions
A retake asks 41 questions within a year
5 pillars
- Health
- Relationships
- Beauty
- Money and work
- Outlook on life
0–10 scale
Each pillar rates how it is going and how much it matters
5 questions on life overall
4 of them set beside UK adults’ answers, plus health, support, and money beside U.S. adults
The Five pillars assessment asks about five parts of life across several short screens. Each part is rated twice, for how it is going and for how much it matters, and the distance between those two answers is what the report is built around.
The questions are drawn from the UK Office for National Statistics, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the International Personality Item Pool, and our own questions, some of which have not been validated yet. It measures no ability and is not a diagnosis.
Why take it here?
Importance meets reality
You rate every part of life twice, once for how it is going and once for how much it matters. The gap separates what is merely imperfect from what is important and going badly.
Where change is realistic
The report puts difficult answers in perspective by identifying what is realistic to change across habits, traits, and interests, giving you a manageable place to start.
More than one reading
When you complete another check-in, the report includes what has changed since your last response, giving you a clear point of comparison.
Nothing at stake
No reason is required for a refund if you are unhappy with the full report. You can read it, decide afterward, and receive 100% of what you paid back within 30 days of buying it.
What the full report shows about you
The paintings, sections, and reading times here come from a made-up person’s report. Your report would be written from your own answers.
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Your life today
How each part of your life is going, how much it matters, and where those two pull apart.
- The five pillars, one at a time
about 5 min
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Your life today
When feeling good and finding life worthwhile point in different directions, and what that difference can mean for you.
- Feeling good and finding it worthwhile
about 2 min
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Your life over time
What research says about habits, traits, and interests that can change, and where change tends to happen.
- What’s realistic to change
about 1 min
Contents
6 sections, 3,649 words, about 14 minutes.
Common questions
Can this diagnose anything?
No. How you rate five parts of your life right now, and where that doesn’t line up with what matters most to you. It can’t diagnose anything or tell you what to want.
Where do the five parts come from?
Carl Jung named five things he thought make for a happy life in a 1960 newspaper interview. That is one thinker’s view, not a proven recipe—and we did not find a questionnaire that measures his five as a set. So we measure each part with questions from researchers or government surveys where we could find them, plus a few of our own. Questions of our own are marked as ours, so you can tell the difference between an established measure and an experiment we are still learning from.
Can I use this for hiring?
No. Nothing here was built or checked for choosing, promoting, or screening out people. The assessment also measures no ability, intelligence, or employability.
What happens to my answers?
We keep your personal information private and never sell it, while anything that identifies you goes only to the companies needed to run the site and take a payment. To delete your account and everything saved in it, email us at hello@nomigram.com from the account’s own address.
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