Everyone else’s quiz gives you the seven deadly sins. This is the list they came from.
In the 4th-century Egyptian desert, a monk named Evagrius catalogued eight logismoi— recurring thoughts he said run a person’s inner life. Two hundred years later the church compressed them into seven and dropped one. The one it dropped is the one you’ll recognise fastest.
Find My Ruling Thought24 questions · ~6 minutes · No sign-up to see your result
The eight
These aren’t sins, verdicts or diagnoses — Evagrius treated them as patterns of attention that visit everybody. The work isn’t confessing one. It’s noticing which of the eight has the loudest voice in you.
Gastrimargia
Gluttony
Porneia
Craving
Philargyria
Avarice
Lypē
Sorrow
Orgē
Anger
Akēdia
Listlessness
Kenodoxia
Vainglory
Hyperēphania
Pride
How it works
Answer honestly
24 short statements. Rate how often each one is true of you — never to that's me.
Meet your ruling thought
Your answers are scored across all eight. We show you the loudest, and the two that shadow it.
Go deeper if you want
The full report adds what the thought is protecting you from, Evagrius's counter-thought, and practices for it.