Answer 36 statements about nine drives: understanding, being needed, strength and control, getting it right, variety, peace, achievement, safety and meaning. Your result shows all nine and highlights the strongest patterns in this sitting.
What this test looks at
Understanding first · 4 statements
Being needed · 4 statements
Strength and control · 4 statements
Getting it right · 4 statements
Variety and possibility · 4 statements
Peace and harmony · 4 statements
Achieving and being seen · 4 statements
Safety and certainty · 4 statements
Depth and meaning · 4 statements
Time
12 minutes
Questions
36
Result
a score for each pattern
Time frame
Answer for how you generally are these days, not for how you would like to be.
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Use the result
What this test adds
All nine scores remain visible, so you can compare close-running motivations and choose one to notice this week.
A small next step
Take the drive that led and watch it for one week: write down three moments where following it made the day better and three where it cost you something. Then read the second-place drive's description and see how many of those six moments it explains just as well.
Questions people ask
How do I read the nine motivations?
Look at the motivations that stand out and consider when they influence your choices. Several motivations can be strong at once.
How many questions is the nine motivations test?
36 statements, four for each of the nine drives, which takes about twelve minutes. Each one is a short sentence about an ordinary situation rather than a scenario to read through.
Is it free?
Yes, free, and you do not need an account. Your answers and your result stay in this browser tab and are never sent anywhere.
Can the order of my drives change?
Yes. These are nine scores from one sitting, so a few points of movement can put a different drive at the top, which is why all nine are shown and not just the first.
What if several drives come out close together?
Read them all as live. Any drive within nine points of the top is named alongside it, because a gap that small is no more than a single answer on a single question, and the scores show that more than one pull was working in this sitting.
