Where the
questions come from.
Original questions, informed by research and shaped by the book.
Atlas grows out of Emily’s framework of Duty, Purpose and Self. Its exercises are being developed through research, editorial review and reader testing.
The first web preview uses questions and an excerpt from Chapter 2 of the Life After manuscript. It has not been separately validated as an intervention.
Three kinds of foundation
The book and its arguments
Philosophy, lived experience and the original distinctions developed in Life After.
Research-informed methods
Work on values clarification, motivation, reflection and turning intentions into action can inform exercise design. Evidence from one setting is not automatically proof that an Atlas exercise works in another.
The reader’s own judgment
Your words remain yours. A useful exercise leaves room to disagree, revise, or decide it does not fit.
Starting sources
- Witteman and colleagues · Clarifying Values
- Martela and Steger · The three meanings of meaning in life
- Sheldon and Elliot · The self-concordance model