Sort a hundred values, cut them to ten, then keep five. About eight minutes.
Thresh. A hundred cards into three piles. Very important, important, not important. Your first instinct is usually the honest one.
Sift. Cut your "very important" pile down to ten. This is the step that does the work.
Pan. Rank five in order, then read the pattern underneath them.
Built on the Personal Values Card Sort by W.R. Miller, J. C'de Baca, D.B. Matthews & P.L. Wilbourne (University of New Mexico, 2001), an instrument in the public domain used in motivational interviewing and clinical practice for twenty-five years. Winnow keeps all 83 original values, shortens the definitions, and adds seventeen more.
Don't overthink it. There are no wrong piles.
These are the ones you called very important. Choose the ten you'd defend.
Click them in order, most important first. Click again to undo.
Your "very important" pile, grouped into themes. The tall bars are the currents underneath your top five.
Read it as a hypothesis, not a verdict.
You ranked these in your top ten but not your top five. Near-misses are often where quiet tension lives.
Generated from your specific top five.
Pick a colour, then save it or send it.
Leave your email and we'll send you today's five, then remind you in six months to sort again and show you exactly what moved.
We're building a longer written analysis: how your five interact, where two of them pull against each other, and eight questions that show the gap between what you say you value and how you actually spend your time and money. It isn't finished yet.
No account, no email required. Your sort stays in your browser and is never sent to a server.
Instrument: Personal Values Card Sort, W.R. Miller, J. C'de Baca, D.B. Matthews & P.L. Wilbourne, University of New Mexico, 2001. Public domain, adapted with attribution: definitions shortened, seventeen values added.
Winnow is a self-reflection tool, not a psychological assessment or a substitute for therapy.