Personality-based self-improvement
Generic advice was written for someone else’s pattern. Start with how you already move through the world.
Four starting names. Your scores stay continuous.
Structure kept the plan alive. Structure also kept options closed.
Harmony held the room. Harmony also hid the hard conversation.
Ideas came fast. Follow-through snagged. Same mind, two contexts.
Drive pushed the team forward. Drive also pushed past recovery.
STEP 01
20 questions. About 5 minutes. A starting Big Five read, not the full 120. Full depth comes later in short bursts.
STEP 02
Five trait scores plus a named coaching lens. Tendencies, not a box. You keep the strength. You name the edge.
STEP 03
Daily Plan and weekly Practice matched to your growth edges. Using the app updates coaching, not your latent trait scores.
Plan
Each day, one habit and two tasks matched to your growth edges. Tied to facets such as Warmth, Trust, and Modesty. Not a generic to-do list.
Example for The Architect: "Pass the praise around" builds Warmth. Matched because Agreeableness can be a growth edge here.
Practice
Short reading, writing, reflection, and listening sessions matched to your growth edges. About 5 to 10 minutes. On a weekly cadence. Never the same for everyone.
Example for The Architect: "Look at your plate before yes" is a reading on over-commitment patterns common in high-Conscientiousness profiles.
IPIP Big Five, a personality model used in research for decades. Not a clinical instrument. See what IPIP-NEO-120 means.
Scores stay separate from journal text. Vault notes are encrypted on your device.
Tendencies, not diagnoses. You choose what to act on.
Profile calibrates deeper over time. Never starts over.
The Big Five is a personality model used in research for decades. IPIP items measure five trait domains as continua, not type boxes like Myers-Briggs. NEO-120 is insight for growth, not a clinical instrument.
A free 5-minute assessment of 20 IPIP-style questions that maps a starting Big Five profile and a named coaching lens. It is a beginning, not the full 120-item map and not a clinical evaluation.
16Personalities uses type labels inspired by Myers-Briggs. NEO-120 uses continuous Big Five scores from IPIP science, then matches Plan and Practice to your facets over time.
Each day, complete one Plan habit and two tasks matched to your growth edges. Practice sessions (read, write, listen, reflect) sit on a weekly cadence and renew with your coaching profile.
Progress through the full item bank is shown as X out of 120. Short bursts deepen the map. They do not rewrite your Spark into a new personality overnight.
Yes, NEO-120 is free to start. The Spark, your starting profile, and daily mood check-ins are always free, and your first three weeks include the full Plan and Practice menu. After that, the free plan keeps one Plan and one Practice item each day. NEO-120 Plus unlocks the full daily menu, the encrypted Notebook vault, Circle of Influence, and mood and progress analytics. The Android app is on Google Play, and iPhone access opens through the iOS waitlist.
20 questions. Five minutes.
Android
NEO-120 is available on the Play Store. Install on Android and explore trait-matched Plan, Practice, and coaching.
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iOS waitlist
The iOS app is still in development. Join the waitlist and we will email you when TestFlight opens.
