2026-11-08 · HERD blog

Deep would you rather questions

Deep questions need time. Pick one, put the phones away, and don't let anyone answer in under a minute.

There is no right side here. The interesting part is why each of you picked yours.

Memory and time

#01

Remember every moment of your life perfectly, or forget everything older than a year?

ARemember everything
BForget past a year
#02

Go back and fix one mistake, or see one moment of your future?

AFix one mistake
BSee one moment
#03

Live one perfect year again and again, or a hundred ordinary ones?

AOne perfect year
BA hundred ordinary
#04

Know the meaning of life, or know how to be happy?

AThe meaning
BHow to be happy
#05

Lose your past, or lose your future plans?

ALose the past
BLose the plans

Who you are

#06

Be truly understood by one person, or admired by millions who don't know you?

AUnderstood by one
BAdmired by millions
#07

Change one thing about your personality, or one thing about your past?

APersonality
BPast
#08

Always feel calm but never excited, or always feel everything at full strength?

AAlways calm
BFeel everything
#09

Be brave but often wrong, or careful but often too late?

ABrave and wrong
BCareful and late
#10

Know exactly what you want in life, or have everything you think you want?

AKnow what you want
BHave what you think you want
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People

#11

Have one person who knows every secret, or nobody who knows any?

AOne knows all
BNobody knows any
#12

Hear the last thing everyone will ever say about you, or the first thing?

AThe last thing
BThe first thing
#13

Make your parents proud, or make your younger self proud?

AYour parents
BYour younger self
#14

Be forgiven by everyone you hurt, or forgive everyone who hurt you?

ABe forgiven
BForgive them
#15

Have a friend for life, or a love for life?

AFriend for life
BLove for life

Meaning

#16

Do work you love for little money, or work you hate for a lot?

ALove it, little money
BHate it, a lot of money
#17

Leave behind one great idea, or raise one great person?

AOne great idea
BOne great person
#18

Know you made the world a little better, or be remembered by name?

AMade it better
BRemembered by name
#19

Live a quiet life with no regrets, or a loud life with a few?

AQuiet, no regrets
BLoud, a few
#20

Find out there is no afterlife, or never find out either way?

AFind out
BNever know

Hardest of all

#21

Give up your biggest dream to save a stranger, or keep it and never know who you didn't save?

AGive up the dream
BKeep it
#22

Be happy and never know why, or understand everything and feel nothing?

AHappy, no reason
BUnderstand, feel nothing
#23

Tell the truth and lose someone, or lie and keep them?

ATruth
BLie
#24

Have one day to say goodbye to everyone, or never have to say goodbye at all?

AOne goodbye day
BNo goodbyes
#25

Be the person you are, or the person everyone thinks you are?

AWho you are
BWho they think you are

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