Each paragraph offers a particular viewpoint based on a distinct perspective. Your task is to read each one closely and identify which worldview it expresses. Pay attention to what it values, how it sees reality, and what it dismisses. Let the underlying assumptions guide your recognition. Answers below.
Twelve Worldviews
Materialism
Spiritism
Realism
Idealism
Mathematism
Rationalism
Psychism
Pneumatism
Monadism
Dynamism
Phenomenalism
Sensationalism
What Is Your True Self?
Viewpoint 1
Your true self is what the world meets. Not the hidden depths you imagine, but the actions you take, the responsibilities you accept, the impressions you leave. People may dream they’re more than this, but what matters is what shows up. Who you are is revealed in how you move through reality — not in your fantasies, not in your intentions, but in your grounded existence.
Viewpoint 2
Your true self was never born and cannot die. It existed before your name and will remain after your final breath. The person you think you are is just a costume, a necessary role in the theater of earthly life. But beneath that is the eternal spark — the Spirit, divine and undivided. You are not what happens to you. You are the watcher, the wanderer, the one who remembers.
Viewpoint 3
Your true self is what appears to you in your most lucid moments — not as a concept, but as presence. It's not hidden behind anything. It’s what arises in experience, when you watch yourself thinking, feeling, choosing. You are not a thing, but an event — a phenomenon in the stream of consciousness. Don’t chase a deeper self behind the veil. The veil is the self.
Viewpoint 4
You are a world unto yourself. Your true self cannot be fully known by anyone else — only glimpsed in the way you express your unique being. You are not a type or a role, but an unfolding mystery, singular in form and perspective. The more you speak from within, the more your real self emerges. Your truth lies not in similarity, but in distinction.
Viewpoint 5
You are your body. Your true self is the sum of your physical experiences — the firing of neurons, the tension in your muscles, the weight of memory etched in brain chemistry. Everything else is layered on top: culture, stories, names. But underneath, you're a biological being, surviving, adapting, responding to your environment. To know yourself, start with what’s tangible — your breath, your hunger, your skin.
Viewpoint 6
You are not a fixed identity — you are a force. Your true self is not something you find, but something you unleash. It’s the current that surges when you are passionate, determined, fully alive. Stagnation hides you. Movement reveals you. You are your will in action, your impact on the world, the energy you bring. If you feel powerful and directed, you're close to your real self.
Viewpoint 7
Your true self is a structure — a configuration of qualities, tendencies, and potentialities that interact with the world according to knowable laws. You are the sum of your internal dynamics, not unlike an equation balancing itself through time. Know your variables, observe your patterns, and you’ll see: the self isn’t mysterious. It’s systematic. You are the pattern in motion — nothing more, nothing less.
Viewpoint 8
You are a vessel of Spirit — not only a thinker or feeler, but a doer of the will that breathes through all things. Your true self is the spark that wants to act, to shape, to serve something greater. You become most yourself not in stillness, but in purposeful movement, when you align with the invisible force calling you forward. You are your capacity to answer that call.
Viewpoint 9
Your true self is the part of you that seeks understanding. Beyond emotion, beyond reaction, there is a mind that questions, reflects, and orders experience into knowledge. This thinking self is what endures. You become most yourself when you think clearly, speak truly, and live according to reason. Anything that clouds your judgment or pulls you into confusion draws you away from who you truly are.
Viewpoint 10
Your true self isn’t found in what you are, but in what you are becoming. You live between the now and the not-yet — drawn upward by the ideal you strive toward. You are not your flaws or your history, but your highest vision. Your real self is the light ahead, the purpose you glimpse and grow toward. Anything less is just a shadow of what could be.
Viewpoint 11
You are what you feel — in your skin, your breath, your senses. Your true self is the vividness of lived experience. The crispness of a breeze, the warmth of laughter, the taste of ripe fruit — these aren’t distractions. They are you, moment by moment. You are not found in theories or introspection, but in how the world touches you, and how you touch it in return.
Viewpoint 12
Your true self lives in your inner world — in the rhythms of your thoughts, the tone of your longings, the shape of your quiet dreams. You are not merely what you do, but what lives in you: the images, emotions, and impulses that others may never see. To know yourself, don’t look outward. Listen inward, where the soul stirs and the unseen shapes take form.
Answers
5. Materialism
2. Spiritism
1. Realism
10. Idealism
7. Mathematism
9. Rationalism
12. Psychism
8. Pneumatism
4. Monadism
6. Dynamism
3. Phenomenalism
11. Sensationalism
