Twelve questions.
One honest hour.
Four pillars, twelve questions, and a clearer view of the pattern you have been living inside. Find somewhere quiet, answer them properly, and see what comes up.
All twelve answered. Head to the last tab to see what to do with them.
How to use this
Twelve questions, and nowhere to hide
Most self development asks you to add something. More discipline, more routine, more motivation. This does the opposite. It asks you to look at what is already there.
The M.A.D.E. Model breaks that down into four pillars: Morals, Ambitions, Drivers and Environments. What you value, what you want, what is really pushing you, and what is going on around you. Between them they explain most of why you do what you do.
There are three questions per pillar. Your answers save automatically in this browser, so you can stop and come back. Nothing is sent anywhere, and nobody else sees them. That is the point. Be honest, because the useful answers are usually the uncomfortable ones.
Morals
Your values change quietly, and most people never stop to check. This is where you find out whether the ones you still claim are the ones you are actually living by.
Ambitions
Plenty of people are working very hard towards something they never actually chose. This is where you check whose goal you are chasing.
Drivers
Fear rarely announces itself. It shows up as being busy, being tired, being realistic. This is where you name what is really running the show.
Environments
You are not just who you are. You are also where you are, and who you are around. This is where you look at what your surroundings are doing to you.
Your answers are more
than reflections.
They are clues.
Clues about where you have been settling. Clues about what is actually possible once you stop running on outdated rules, borrowed goals and quiet fear.
Reading them back is the first useful thing. The next is understanding where the pattern came from.
Why Do I Do This?
A guide to building a stronger relationship with yourself
Twelve questions can show you the pattern. The book explains where it came from. Drawing on his own experience of childhood adversity, addiction and recovery, Johnny works through all four pillars of the M.A.D.E. Model properly, and what to do once you can see them.
- Understand the emotional roots of your behaviour
- Let go of self blame, shame and self sabotage
- Name the values and motivations actually shaping your life
- Make change that lasts, because it fits who you are
Leave your email on the book page and you will hear the moment pre-orders open, before anyone else. One email when there is something worth telling you, nothing otherwise.
Keep your answers somewhere you will see them again. They are worth rereading in six months.
Keep your answers
Save a copy to revisit, or bring along if you ever work with Johnny one to one.