Courage quests

Street artist

Draw inspiring picture or message with chalk on pavement

Open mic

Perform at open mic or karaoke

Without GPS

Get to place without GPS, navigating by memory

Get lost on purpose

Walk in random direction for 30 minutes

Mini trip

Go to neighboring city for day

Extreme socializing

Talk to 5 strangers

Red Cap

Wear something noticeable and go outside

Elephant in a Month

Take one enormous task and break it into 30 steps

Performance

Perform for one person — poem, joke, mini speech

One Day of Fear

Today, do one thing that truly scares you

Comfortable Jump

Think of one thing you've wanted to do for a long time but haven't dared. Not scary — pleasant. Call that person. Visit that place. Say that word. Do it today. Not tomorrow. Just take it and do it.

Not My Style

Do something today that's completely unlike you. Order a dish you've never tried. Talk to a stranger. Take a different bus. It doesn't matter what — the point is that it clicks inside: 'this isn't me'. That's exactly why — do it.

Surströmming

Have you tried surströmming? No? Time to fix that. Get a can any way you can. Find brave company or risk it alone. Film the reaction — yours or theirs. If you liked it — you're stronger than you thought.

Durian

Have you tried durian — the fruit whose smell gets hotels shut down? Your task — find it and try it. Asian store, Thai market, order online, or fly to Bangkok — doesn't matter how. Just try it. And remember the look on your face.

New Color

You chose extreme? Then go. Dye your hair a color you've never tried. Pink, blue, green — your choice. Never dyed at all? Perfect reason to start. Spray, chalk, salon — doesn't matter how. What matters — today you're a different person.

150 km

Take a trip. Right now. Within 150 kilometers of you. Where — decide yourself. By car, train, bike, hitchhiking. Don't plan. Just pick a direction and go.

Escape Room

Find an escape room in your city. Gather a team or find strangers on the spot — many are looking for group members. Pick a theme that scares you. Go through it. Escape — heroes. Don't escape — still heroes.

Radius Trip

Visit a city exactly 150km away and eat there

Theater Night

Go to a movie or play alone

Foreign Trip

Plan a trip abroad in 2 weeks and book it

Acting Classes

Sign up for an acting or improv workshop

Public Performance

Song or speech in a crowded place

Cold Plunge

Find natural cold water and submerge

Street poetry

Read a poem to a stranger.

Night under stars

Spend a night under the open sky.

Trip abroad

Plan and take a trip abroad.

Life Stage

Join a theater studio or improv workshop.

Voice of reason

Write and publish an essay on a meaningful topic.

Street interview

Interview 3 strangers about what happiness means to them.

Fire by water

Build a campfire by a lake or river (where permitted).

Fear list

Write your fears and choose one small fear to conquer today.

No "no" for an hour

For one hour say yes to everything reasonable. Accept and find a way.

Blindfolded

Blindfolded, navigate a familiar route (with assistant nearby).

Silent hour

One hour in a public place — complete silence. Only gestures.

10 rejections in one day

Ask 10 different people for something. Goal is rejection. Get used to "no".

Quest without a plan

Leave home without a goal or phone for one hour. Return with a story.

Renew your blood

Become a blood donor — help someone and get a free blood test. Or just get your blood tested and learn your vitamin status.

Half a tennis ball over each eye

The classic Ganzfeld: even diffuse light, white noise, half an hour with no external images

A role for one day

Pick an ordinary day and play the person you want to become — don't believe it, act it

Smalahove

A whole Norwegian sheep head. The eye and the ear go first — that is the tradition

Tartare, made by you

Raw beef, a knife instead of a grinder, capers and an egg yolk. Buy the meat from a butcher and only today's

Mämmi

A Finnish Easter dessert of rye malt. It looks alarming and is served with cream and sugar

Haggis

Scottish sheep offal in a stomach, with turnip and potato. The taste is calmer than the description

Century egg

A Chinese egg gone black, cured in alkali. The smell is ammoniac, the taste is not

Paan

An Indian betel-leaf parcel with spices. Take the version without tobacco and without areca nut — leaf and filling only

Kibbeh nayyeh

Lebanese raw lamb with bulgur and mint. Only at a place you trust, and only the day's fresh batch

Korean hot soup

Yukgaejang or kimchi jjigae, and no asking them to tone it down. Rice and water alongside are part of the plan

5:30

Get up at 5:30 tomorrow. No phone — go outside and see what the city looks like before everyone

A day as a rich person

Live one day the way you would if it had already worked out: the clothes, the breakfast, the restaurant, the test drive

Three days as a rich person

The same thing, three days in a row. It is on the third day that the point of it shows up

Leave the comfort zone the pleasant way

Do the good thing you have long wanted but kept postponing out of awkwardness. Not scary — just unfamiliar

A Day No One Sees

Spend a day off with nobody knowing what you're doing: no updates, photos or stories.

Cancel One Thing

Take one thing you agreed to without wanting it and cancel it today, in one message.

Leave Early

At the first gathering that stops being worth it, get up and leave — politely, but right away.

Ask to Move It

Ask to change one fixed point in your week: your start time, the standing call, Sunday lunch.

Cover the Prices

In a cafe, cover the price column and choose what you actually want. Uncover it only once you've decided.

Yes, Help Me

In an expensive shop, don't say "just looking". Say what you're after and let them serve you.

An Hour in the Lobby

Walk into the lobby of an expensive hotel, sit down and stay an hour. Order tea, or nothing at all.

Ask First

Ask for help from someone you always help. Be concrete, and don't apologise.

The Silence After

Ask for something, then stay silent. No softening, no excuses, until they answer.

No, No Reason

Turn something down today and give no reason at all. Just: no, I can't.

The Question You Dread

Ask the person the one question whose answer you're afraid to hear.

Say It While They Live

Say to their face today what you'd say about them at their funeral.

Tell Me Where I Was Wrong

Ask someone close how you've hurt them — and stay quiet while they answer.

Ten Minutes of Your Time

Ask a busy person for ten minutes, and say exactly what you want them for.

No Job Title

Spend a whole evening among people without once saying what you do for a living.

Off Duty at Home

For one evening stop being who you always are at home: don't decide, don't fix, don't carry.

The Fitting Room

Try on the clothes of the person you could have been. Buy nothing.

Stand Close

Go where people actually do the thing you dreamed of, and just be there an hour.

Apply Where You Don't Belong

Send an application for a job you believe you're not qualified for.

Not Your Chair

At dinner or at work, take a seat that isn't your usual one. Explain nothing.

Let Me Think

On the first request you'd say yes to without thinking, say: give me an hour.

I'm Not Coming

Cancel something you only attend out of habit — and give the real reason, no cover story.

Reply After Lunch

Leave the first message of the morning unanswered until lunch. Then reply without explaining the gap.

I Don't Know

In a conversation where you always have an opinion, say "I don't know" and add nothing.

Don't Make the Joke

Once, among people, don't play your role: no joke, no rescue, no smoothing things over.

The Call You Keep Postponing

Call — with your voice — the person you promised to call long ago. No texting.

Say It Out Loud: I Was Afraid

Name to a real person one thing you did not do out of fear — with no reference to circumstances.

The Photo You Hide

Set a photo where you do not like how you look as your avatar for one day.

Table for One

Eat in a restaurant alone, at a table in the room, with no phone and no book.

Collect Three No’s

Deliberately collect three refusals today: ask for things almost certain to get a no.

Badly, and in Public

Spend half an hour doing something you are bad at, in front of witnesses, without apologising once.

No to the One You Never Refuse

Say no to the exact person you have never refused.

The Thing You Are Ashamed Of

Tell one person the thing you are ashamed of, and soften it with not a single word.

Name the Higher Price

Once, name a price for your work higher than usual — and go silent after it.

Show the Unfinished

Send three people the thing you make for the drawer, exactly as raw as it is now.

The Conversation You Owe by Years

Set for today, and hold, the conversation you have been postponing for years.

The Envelope You Never Opened

Find the letter or bill you never opened because you were afraid of it. Open it today and take one step.

Call the One You Owe

Call the creditor yourself and ask for a payment plan — before they call you.

Ask for It Back

Write to the person who owes you money and name the amount and a date. No jokes, no «if it suits you».

Cancel One Subscription

Pick one subscription and take the cancellation all the way to the confirmation email. Today, not at period end.

The Call About Your Tariff

Call one provider — phone, electricity, insurance — and demand the terms new customers get.

Sell One Thing Today

List something you do not use and take it all the way to money landing in your account.

Name Your Price

Offer one specific person something you can do — with the price written into the offer. Not «for free».

Ask for More

Set up the money conversation and say a specific figure out loud. Today: the request for a meeting and a prepared number.