Hand-picked from 1,700 open cards
Self-Reflection Questions
Cards you can draw alone. Good in a journal, better on a long walk, best with one person who will not let you get away with a polished answer.
- Are you a friend to yourself?
The whole self-help aisle, compressed into five words.
- Are you as kind to yourself as you are to others?
- What are you currently trying to unlearn?
- Do you have something to prove currently?
- What did you last put considerable effort into but proved impossible?
- What comes to you in waves?
- What is your favourite flavour of shit sandwich? (The hardship you are glad to do)
Everyone has a favourite hardship. Naming it is oddly relaxing.
- Are you afraid your best work is behind you?
- How important is humility in your interactions?
- What do you wish you had not taken personally, or as a reflection of you?
- What grownup thing are you still failing to do or understand?
- When do you wish you were harder on yourself?
- What would you write about in a letter to your future self? Why?
- What are some of your „I know about it, I am not going to do anything about it“ sort of issues?
- How often do you feel shame and judgment towards your feelings and fight against feeling them, rather than accepting your feeling as neutral?
- Did you ever stop picturing yourself as if you were inside a race with all other people? If yes, when?
- Do you think it is selfish to devote most of your time and attention to becoming a better version of yourself?
- What is an identity you accepted for yourself that stopped you from growing, but that you no longer believe about yourself? maybe something like I am "not decisive"
- Has your self-compassion decreased or increased with age? if it has increased, what is the best consequence you have felt from it?
- Can you go one week without ever looking at your wounds, shortcomings and weaknesses?
- What is a compliment you don’t hear enough, if you would not be honest but really honest?
- What would you do if you were guaranteed success and you could not fail at it?
- What would you do if you were guaranteed to fail no matter what you choose? What would be most worth doing even without a chance of success?
The inverse of the famous version, and much more honest.
- What’s a conversation you keep having with yourself?
- What do you wish you could stop judging yourself for?
- What did you start too late?
- How much is the victim/agent balance of your story?
- What has been your biggest second chance?
Why these 28?
Every card here was picked by hand out of the full open-source Jous set. The rest of the pile is a random draw away — some cards there are dumb, some are deep. That is the point.
All conversation cards