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— Frequently Asked —

A few things

worth knowing.

Most questions about the quiz, the archetypes, the kits, and how all of it works.

— The Quiz —

The Quiz

Everything about taking it, retaking it, and what the results mean.
Five minutes if you read carefully, three if you don’t. There are twelve questions, each with four answer options. The quiz auto-advances when you tap an answer, so there’s no “submit” button to find at the end. A small “back” button appears from question two onwards if you want to change a previous answer.
Yes. Free, no signup, no email required to take it or to see your result. You can take it as many times as you want without leaving anything behind. The kits (R299 each) are the paid product — but you never have to buy one to read your archetype page. The quiz is the entry point, not a paywall.
No. After the quiz, you’ll see your full archetype result on the page itself — no email gate. If you want the breakdown sent to your inbox so you can read it later or share it, you can drop your email in. Otherwise, you can read everything on the site and walk away.
Pick the one that’s true more often, even if it’s only true 51% of the time. The quiz is designed to handle some noise — one ambiguous answer won’t change your result. What matters is the overall pattern across all twelve questions. Don’t overthink any single one.
Most people are. The quiz returns your dominant archetype — the one you scored highest on — but it’s normal to have traces of one or two others. Your secondary archetype tends to show up in specific contexts (the Dreamer who becomes a Builder at work, the Restorer who becomes an Explorer on holiday). Your archetype page will read mostly true, with a few sentences that feel like they describe someone else. That’s the secondary archetype showing through.
Yes, anytime. People do change over years — and even within a year, a hard season can shift your answers. We actually recommend retaking it once a year, around the same time (a birthday, New Year, the start of spring). If your result changes, it’s worth asking what changed in your life to produce that shift. Sometimes it’s growth. Sometimes it’s burnout.
Two things to try, in order. First, read the archetype page anyway — most people who think the quiz got them wrong find that 70-80% of it lands when they actually read it. The surprise is often the point. Second, if it still doesn’t fit after reading, retake the quiz and answer for who you actually are right now, not the person you wish you were or used to be. The most common reason for a wrong result is answering aspirationally instead of honestly.
It’s a thoughtful self-reflection tool, not a clinical instrument. MoodMap is not a peer-reviewed psychometric — there’s no published validity testing the way there is for the Big Five or the MMPI. We’ve designed it carefully, drawing from a wide range of personality research, but if you need a clinically validated assessment (for therapy, HR, or research), this isn’t it. The Big Five and the HEXACO are the gold standards there.
No. We respect those systems, but they ask different questions. The Enneagram is about core motivations and fears. Myers-Briggs is about cognitive functions. MoodMap is specifically about your relationship to time, energy, emotion, and routine — and the kind of life-system that fits. You can be a Type 4 on the Enneagram and a Dreamer here, or a Type 8 and a Builder. They describe different layers of the same person.
A one-line each: Dreamer — creative, visionary, lives in possibility. Stalls at execution. Builder — driven, capable, lives in progress. Stalls at rest. Restorer — gentle, deep, lives in care. Stalls at receiving. Explorer — curious, restless, lives in motion. Stalls at staying. The full archetype overview at /archetypes/ covers each one in more depth.
— The Kits —

The Kits

What's inside, who they're for, and which one fits you.
Three pieces, all digital. (1) A 22-page Personality Report — an editorial study of how your archetype functions. Your relationship to time, energy, emotion. Three strengths. Five stalling patterns. A letter written specifically to you. Permission, at the end, to live this way. (2) An Annual Planner — built specifically for the way your archetype thinks. The Dreamer’s planner uses loose containers and project rotations; the Builder’s uses time blocks with rest baked in; the Restorer’s uses rhythm rather than schedule; the Explorer’s stretches to fit motion. 52 weekly prompts, seasonal resets, the full structure of a year. (3) A Workbook — exercises for the moments you get stuck. The Dreamer’s workbook is “Getting Unstuck.” The Builder’s is “Healthy Discipline.” The Restorer’s is “Romanticising Your Life.” The Explorer’s is “Consistency Without Feeling Trapped.” Seven exercises in each, designed to be returned to over time.
R299 per kit (around $19 USD). One-time purchase, no subscription, lifetime access. Future updates and revisions are free for anyone who’s already bought.
All four kits are live. The Clarity Kit for Dreamers, the Discipline Kit for Builders, the Soft Life Kit for Restorers, and the Freedom Kit for Explorers. Each is R299, one-time, lifetime access. Take the quiz to find out which one was built for you.
There’s a kit for you. The Discipline Kit, the Soft Life Kit, and the Freedom Kit are each built for one specific archetype — same depth, same care, same R299 price as the Clarity Kit. Take the quiz, read your archetype, and if it lands, your kit is waiting on its own page.
No. Digital only. You’ll receive three PDF files and three editable PowerPoint files by email immediately after purchase. You can read them on any device, print them at home or at a copy shop, or use them on an iPad with GoodNotes or Notability. We chose digital deliberately — it keeps the price modest, makes the kit available globally without shipping costs, and lets us send free updates when we revise the content.
Yes. The PDFs are designed for A4 portrait printing — that’s the most common paper size globally (the US can use Letter size, the pages fit either way). You can print them at home, take them to a copy shop, or send them to a print-on-demand service like Lulu. Many people print just the planner, or the workbook pages they’re working through that month, while reading the report on a screen.
Fair question. The short answer: the kits cost R299 because we’d rather have ten thousand people use them than five hundred people pay R3,000 for a course. Personal development is a category where high prices are usually a sign of overheads (a coach’s time, a software subscription, a marketing budget) rather than the underlying value of what’s being sold. We don’t have those overheads. The kits are made once and sold many times, with no ongoing cost per customer. So R299 covers the work, lets us keep going, and stays accessible.
Not yet. A free preview PDF is in development. In the meantime, the free archetype page on the site is a careful preview of the writing style and voice — if you find that page useful and the voice trustworthy, the full report uses the same approach across 22 pages, with more depth on every section. The kit also comes with a 14-day refund, so if it doesn’t land for you when you actually read it, you can ask for your money back without any hassle.
Not yet. In Phase 1 each kit is sold individually at R299. A two-kit bundle (useful for couples or close friends with different archetypes) and a four-kit complete set are planned. If a bundle would be useful for you now, email hello@moodmap.com and we’ll arrange it manually.
Yes. Two larger products are planned. (1) The Complete Kit (R649) — the Lean Kit plus an audio version of the report, a structured journal, archetype cards, and a 90-day routine builder. Same archetype-specific content, more pieces. (2) The Recalibrate Subscription (R89/month) — for people who’ve already bought a kit and want ongoing tools: seasonal prompts, quarterly check-ins, new exercises, occasional live sessions. Neither is essential. The Lean Kit alone is a complete product — both later tiers are for people who want to go deeper.
— Buying & Delivery —

Buying & Delivery

How payment works, what you receive, and what to do if something goes wrong.
We use Yoco, a South African payment processor, for all card transactions. South African cards pay directly through Yoco’s local gateway; international cards go through Yoco’s international gateway. All major credit and debit cards work — Visa, Mastercard, American Express. Apple Pay and Google Pay are supported in some browsers. Card details are handled entirely by Yoco — we never see or store them.
Not currently. PayPal isn’t supported in South Africa for receiving payments without a US bank account, so it’s not in Phase 1. Direct bank transfer (EFT) is something we may add for South African customers later — for now, card payment is the only option. If you don’t have a credit or debit card and want a kit, email support@moodmap.com and we’ll work something out manually.
Yes. The whole site runs on HTTPS, and the actual card-entry happens on Yoco’s PCI-DSS-compliant payment page (not ours). Your card details never touch our servers — we only receive a confirmation that the payment succeeded plus the customer’s name and email. If Yoco is secure enough for thousands of South African businesses, it’s secure enough for this.
South African Rand (ZAR), regardless of where you live. If you’re paying with a foreign card, your bank converts to Rand at the prevailing exchange rate. The page shows an approximate USD equivalent for reference (~$19), but the actual charge will be in Rand. For most non-SA cards, expect a small foreign transaction fee from your own bank — usually 1–3%.
For South African customers: yes, 15% VAT is included in the price you see. For international customers: the price you see is the price you pay — we handle any applicable digital services tax on our end. There are no surprise charges at checkout.
Immediately. The moment your payment goes through, you’ll get a confirmation email with download links to all the files (three PDFs and three PowerPoint versions). The whole thing takes under a minute. If you don’t see the email within 10 minutes, check your spam folder — it almost always lands there for new senders. If it’s not there either, email support@moodmap.com with the email address you used and we’ll resend manually.
Not really. The download links don’t expire, and we keep a record of every purchase. If you change devices, lose the original email, accidentally delete the files, or anything else goes wrong years later, email us with the address you used to buy and we’ll resend the files. There’s no time limit on this — it’s a lifetime purchase.
Yes. 14 days, no questions asked. If the kit doesn’t land for you, email support@moodmap.com with your order number and we’ll refund the full amount within a few days. We don’t make you justify it or jump through hoops. After 14 days refunds are at our discretion, but if there’s a genuine problem (the files are corrupt, the wrong kit was sent), we’ll always sort it out — just write to us.
First, try a different card or browser — sometimes a single transaction fails for reasons that have nothing to do with you (bank fraud filters, an over-cautious 3D Secure check). If it still fails, email support@moodmap.com with the email address you were trying to use and what happened. We’ll either give you a manual payment link or troubleshoot with you. You won’t be charged for a failed transaction.
Not as a clean automated gift purchase yet — but yes, if you want to. Buy the kit using your own email, then forward the download links to whoever you’re giving it to. Or email us before purchasing, tell us who it’s for and their email address, and we’ll arrange for the kit to go directly to them with a personal note. We’re a small operation and we like making this kind of thing easy.
— Using the Kit —

Using the Kit

How to actually get the most out of what you bought.
Read the Personality Report cover to cover, in one sitting if you can. Make a cup of something. Put your phone face-down. The report is designed to be read like an essay, not skimmed like a self-help book. Then put it down for at least a day before opening the Planner or Workbook — let the reading settle. When you come back, start with the Planner’s annual vision page, then the next week’s planning. The Workbook is for when you get stuck, not for working through cover-to-cover.
Two possibilities: either the quiz placed you in the wrong archetype, or the report is describing a part of you that you haven’t fully met yet. We’d suggest re-reading the page that bothered you most after a week — the parts that initially feel “not quite me” often land later, once they’ve had time to dissolve a defence. If after a second reading the kit still doesn’t fit, email us — we’ll refund you (within the 14-day window) or swap you to a different archetype’s kit. We’d rather you have the right one.
No. The Planner works on a 12-week season cycle, not a calendar year. You can start any week — pick up where you are, fill in the current season’s pages, and start using the weekly layout from the coming Monday. We deliberately didn’t print dates onto it. A planner that starts on January 1st becomes useless on January 15th if you didn’t start on time. This one starts whenever you do.
Skip it. Don’t try to backfill. The planner isn’t a habit tracker — it’s a way to think about the next week and notice patterns across weeks. Missing a week, especially if you missed it because life was full, is itself information. The next week’s page is the next page. Use it.
A full year of weekly pages plus seasonal resets, so 52 weeks of weekly content. After a year, most people retake the quiz, see if their archetype has shifted, and either reprint the same planner or buy the next kit (if a different archetype now fits). The kit itself doesn’t expire — you can use the same PDF for ten years if you want, printing new copies of the planner each year.
When you’re stuck. That’s the whole answer. The workbook isn’t a sequential thing you complete — it’s seven exercises, in roughly the order you’d reach for them when nothing else is working. Read the introduction first (which names the seven kinds of stuck), then open it again only when you recognise yourself in one of them. Some people use one exercise a month, some use the same one repeatedly, some haven’t opened it in a year. All of that is fine.
The licence is for personal use, so the strict answer is no. The honest practical answer: if your partner is also the same archetype and would benefit, showing them the report once is fine — what we ask is that they don’t use the planner and workbook as their own. If both of you are going to use it ongoingly, please each get your own kit. The price is set deliberately low so this isn’t an extravagant ask, and it lets us keep going.
Not under the standard personal licence. If you want to use the kit professionally — as material for clients, as a teaching tool, as part of a paid program — email us and we’ll arrange a commercial licence. We’re reasonable about this. The rate depends on the size of your practice. The reason we don’t allow it under the personal licence is that without that boundary, the price of the kit would have to be much higher to be sustainable. We’d rather keep personal use modestly priced and have a separate, fair rate for professional use.
That’s quite common, especially in your twenties or after a major life shift. Retake the quiz. If your archetype has changed, buy that kit. You don’t lose access to the first one — it stays yours forever, and what you learned in it doesn’t stop being true. Some people end up owning two kits over a few years. That’s a feature, not a bug — it’s a record of how you’ve changed.
Yes. We revise the content periodically — usually once a year — based on customer feedback and our own continued thinking. If we release a revised version of a kit you already bought, you’ll get the updated files free, by email. You don’t need to do anything to claim the update — we send it to everyone who’s previously bought. The original version stays available to you too, in case you’ve already marked up or annotated the older PDF.
— About MoodMap —

About MoodMap

Who we are, where we're based, and what we're actually trying to do.
MoodMap is an independent small business, designed and operated from South Africa. It’s a small team — small enough that the people you email are the people writing the kits. We’re not part of a larger company. There’s no VC funding. There’s no parent organisation. Everything you see on the site was made by hand, slowly, on purpose.
Because that’s where we live, and that’s where the project started. South African personal development culture has been dominated by American imports for decades — books, courses, podcasts, and frameworks built for a different economic and emotional context. We wanted to make something here, in the voice of here, that South Africans could afford and recognise. The decision to launch in Rand-first pricing (R299, not $29 converted) was deliberate. The international version is downstream of the local one, not the other way around.
No. MoodMap is secular. There’s no religious framing in any of the content, no mention of God or spirit or the universe. It is, however, written with respect — the tone is closer to a wise older friend than to a corporate productivity coach. If “secular but warm” makes sense to you, you’ll be at home here.
No. MoodMap is a self-reflection tool, not therapy. The kits are written carefully and address real patterns, but they are not a substitute for professional mental health support. If you’re struggling with depression, anxiety, trauma, addiction, or any other clinical concern, please speak to a qualified professional. The Personality Report explicitly says this in its closing pages.
Partly, but not the kind you’re used to. Standard productivity advice (5am routines, time-blocking, optimisation) was largely written for one archetype — the Builder — and fails the other three. MoodMap is closer to “life design” than productivity: it’s about building a way of living that fits who you already are, rather than forcing yourself into a system that was never made for you. The Builder kit is the most productivity-adjacent. The other three are progressively further from that category.
Three phases. Phase 1 (now): All four archetype kits live — Clarity, Discipline, Soft Life, Freedom — at R299 each. Build the email list, prove the model, refine the writing. Phase 2: A larger Complete Kit (R649) with audio, archetype cards, a journal, and a 90-day routine builder. Two-kit and four-kit bundles. Phase 3: A Recalibrate subscription (R89/month) for ongoing tools — seasonal prompts, quarterly check-ins. USD pricing for international customers. Possibly translations to other languages. The goal is to build slowly. We’d rather make a small honest business that serves ten thousand people well than a fast venture-funded one that serves a million people badly.
Those are mostly subscription apps built for behaviour change at scale — daily habits, meditations, micro-content delivered through a phone. MoodMap is the opposite: a small set of finite, beautifully made digital objects that you buy once and use over years. No app. No notifications. No streaks. No daily nudges. The product is closer in spirit to a thoughtful book or a careful journal than to an app.
Yes, please. We’re a small operation, but we genuinely enjoy talking about this work. For press, podcasts, partnerships, or interviews, email hello@moodmap.com with a note about what you’re working on. We try to reply within 24 hours, and we usually say yes.
A few things, all genuinely helpful. Take the quiz, read your archetype, share the page with one person who’d find it useful. The growth that matters most is the one-to-one kind — someone telling a friend the page reminded them of them. Tag us on Instagram (@moodmap) if you share a result. We see all of it. Reply to the email sequence you’ll get after the quiz — tell us which parts landed and which didn’t. Real feedback from real people is what makes the next version of the kit better. That’s it. We’re not running a referral program or a tip jar. The most useful support is genuine word of mouth.
Email hello@moodmap.com and we’ll answer it. We add the most-asked questions to this page over time, so your question may end up here for someone else. Don’t worry about whether it’s a “good” question or whether it’s too basic — if you’re wondering it, other people are too.
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