The Questions

Our challenge at Should Labs is to take life and break it down into a series of less than 20 major choices that strongly correlate to Health, Wealth, Happiness and Risk. This task, by the way, is one of the most awesome things we have ever done and the results of our work are the 19 questions you see to your right. Since you’re here, our challenge to you is to explore each of these questions, jot down the choice that you have or would like to make, and then scroll down to our section on scoring to explore your results.

Scoring

That was quick! Welcome to our scoring section. Let me start with a massive disclaimer. ShouldLabs is a work in progress and the validity of our scoring and the predictions that you can draw from it about your potential wealth, health and happiness are tenuous at best. All we can say right now is that the higher your score relative to someone else, the “better off” you probably are. What we mean is that someone who scores a 17 (our scale runs from -32 to 37) will likely have greater subjective life satisfaction, will likely be relatively wealthier (as measured by current income, debt and savings) and will likely be healthier (at the very least will have a greater subjective sense of health) than someone who scores 2. Honestly though, until we collect more data this is not something for you to base your next meal on let alone your life.

Now down to scoring, we highly suggest you go through the questions to your right as they have a great deal of background information on the research and the rationale behind the scoring, once you do that, feel free to download this handy, dandy spreadsheet and put in your responses. Once you do, you can look at the % of Optimal row and it will tell you how close to the “perfect” (based on this research) life you are living/wish to live. As it stands, the resolution on these results seem to be about 10% (7 points), which is to say that it takes about 10% of difference between results to notice in the real world. Keep that in mind and check back here for improvements.

Improvements

Speaking of improvements, we would love for you to help us make ShouldLabs better. To do that, all you have to do is take our survey. Your answers will help us gain a better understanding of the validity of our model and its predictive capacity. It’s also a faster and more automated method of getting your score than the spreadsheet and is much more likely to take into account our most up to date information. We will pass this knowledge onto you, to help you live better, more productive lives.

In short, take our darn web form, immediately and with gusto.

Yours,

The ShouldLabs Team