Inqwire is built on research from cognitive science that reveals what the brain needs (and needs to avoid) to restore and enhance your ability to make sense of things. See the key research.
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As we go through life, we can struggle with negative feelings, we can become bothered by things that we can't identify, we can feel lost in life, unable to orient and navigate forward.
What if you could address these challenges on your own? What if you could rely on yourself to pull yourself out of challenging mental states, to identify what's bothering you, to clearly articulate the problems you're facing, and to navigate your life towards what’s best for you?
What is the value of being able to rely on yourself to make sense of things in life versus getting help from others?
Even if you want to get help, there aren’t enough helpers.
In some places, you have to wait months before you can get help from someone. And when you really need to sort things out, that’s too long to wait.
When you bring other people into the mix of your personal challenges, things get complicated.
When other people try to help, it doesn’t always help, and it can actually be harmful.
There are a number of ways other people can unintentionally influence us to adopt false beliefs about life or ourselves, to make the wrong decisions, to take on goals that aren’t good for us, to recall false memories, to forget what really matters to us, and much more.
Much of what we need to make sense of is very personal. It's completely reasonable to want to keep things private and not share the details of your thoughts and feelings with anyone else.
There are real risks with revealing what's personal to you, and yet others may try to pressure you into opening up when you don't want to.
If you could rely on yourself to help yourself, you wouldn't need to pay or wait for others to help, you could maintain your privacy, and you could stay away from influences that could harm you.
But being able to make sense of things on your own isn’t valuable just as a backup plan for when you can’t or don’t want to get help from others.
Being able to rely on yourself to pull yourself out of negative states, solve your own personal problems, make good life decisions, and navigate challenging circumstances is an empowering ability to have.
This might surprise you, but we now know from modern cognitive science that each and every one of us is born with the capacity to make sense of and navigate our world.
We come built-in with the ability to make sense of things, solve life challenges, make wise decisions, get to the bottom of negative mental states, navigate challenging circumstances, and more.
And this is all possible due to something called “natural intelligence”.
Natural intelligence is what every living thing relies on, including us, to navigate an extremely complex, ever-changing environment to survive and thrive.
Natural intelligence is the most powerful form of intelligence we know of. It’s considered by A.I. researchers to be well beyond what any A.I. system is capable of (even the latest A.I. technology).
It’s the same capacity that makes it possible to learn new things, to innovate, to reach insights. It’s the same capacity that scientists use to have major breakthroughs. It’s what we use to make sense of and navigate our world.
We are always navigating life with an understanding of reality. You can think of it like having a map of a territory. The more accurate our understanding of reality, or the more accurate our map is of the territory, the better we are able to navigate away from harm and towards what we need or want in life. With a perfectly accurate map, we wouldn’t get stuck, lost, or disoriented.
Of course, that’s not how we experience life. We don’t have perfectly accurate maps. It’s the nature of life for us to reveal gaps or inconsistencies between our understanding and reality, or gaps between our map and the territory.
When we reveal a gap between our map and the territory, we rely on our natural intelligence to solve the problem, to correct the map, and update our understanding.
With this new understanding, this new and more accurate map, we can continue navigating life better than before. We have new knowledge and wisdom about how things work that we can use to get towards what’s best for us.
This is as a constant process our mind is doing to try to make sense of things all the time so that we can navigate life, all powered by our natural intelligence.
And every single one of us is born with this same capacity to make sense of things and navigate life with natural intelligence.
Well-established research now shows that there are many factors and forces all around us that are blocking, impairing, and breaking down our natural intelligence.
The breakdown of natural intelligence leads to a break down in our ability to make sense of things in life, which leads to painful psychological states, the inability to think clearly, make good decisions, and navigate away from harm.
When we can't make sense of things, we may feel that we are lost, that life has lost meaning or purpose, or that we are unable to see the forest for the trees.
When we can't make sense of things, it becomes much more difficult to navigate out of painful life circumstances and towards what we care about. It also becomes harder to bounce back when life throws us a curve ball.
In contrast, when we are able to make sense of things, we would expect that we would not only be able to solve or address problems and challenges in our lives, but that we would arrive at solutions that would feel intrinsically meaningful, and therefore give us a sense of meaning in life.
And it's no surprise that researchers who study meaning-making find that the sense that one's life has meaning correlates with just about every measure of well-being there is, and anti-correlates with a variety of illnesses, diseases, and disorders.
Brain scientists are seeing similar evidence. The Human Connectome Project found that the one commonality between 500 measures of health and well-being, was high connectivity between areas of the brain that are responsible for our ability to make sense of things.
Many researchers are coming to the conclusion that restoring health and well-being isn't about isolating a 'broken' part of our brain, it's about restoring connections that enable our brain to make sense of things.
This points at how restoring and enhancing our natural intelligence for making sense of things, could be the most important investment we can make in our psychological and overall well-being.
Our natural intelligence can break down in a way that prevents us from being able to identify what the gap actually is between our understanding and reality. We can get stuck here, not being able to determine what it is we need to make sense of.
That’s a big problem, because if we can’t identify the gaps between our understanding and reality, we can’t make sense of them, we can’t update our understanding, which means that we will continue living life with an understanding or map that could put us in danger, keep us stuck in bad circumstances, keep us unable to make good decisions, and more.
As we encounter more and more gaps between our understanding and reality, they pile up, and the problem compounds as we develop a backlog of things that we aren’t making sense of.
Our natural intelligence can also break down in a way that prevents us from being able to make sense of and update our understanding of reality. We may be able to identify the gap in our understanding, but we can get stuck trying to make sense of it, unable to reach the insight we need to see what we were missing and find a solution.
If we can’t engage our natural intelligence in the way we need to make sense of the gaps in our understanding, they again pile up, our lives become full of things we can’t seem to solve, and we can find ourselves feeling like our entire life doesn't make sense.
The good news is that modern cognitive science has revealed exactly how natural intelligence breaks down. And because we know how it breaks down, we know how to reverse it.
There are real things we now know how to do, and can do today, to check if our natural intelligence is being impaired, to bring it back online, to strengthen it, and to protect it.
And there are powerful ways that technology, if used in the right ways, can accelerate and enhance it.
By restoring, enhancing, and protecting our natural intelligence, we can restore, enhance, and protect this essential job of our mind to make sense of things so we can better navigate away from harm and towards what’s best for us.
Inqwire walks you through each step of how to restore, enhance, and protect your ability to make sense of things, trains you in the essential practices and skills you need, and gives you unique and powerful tools that make the process simpler, faster, and more effective.
Inqwire gives you a reliable process and powerful tools for making sense of anything in your life from start to finish, while helping you overcome common barriers along the way.
Unlike typical software, Inqwire simultaneously trains you in essential cognitive skills so you can become self-reliant in making sense of things on your own with or without the tools.
While you are making sense of things with Inqwire, you are learning by doing. Just like learning a new language or learning to play an instrument, the more you use the tools and practice the process of making sense of things in your life, that more skilled and the faster you will get at making sense of things in your life.
When you’re dealing with racing thoughts, when you’re managing emotional or physical pain, when you’re feeling cut off from your feelings, or if you’re having a hard time being with yourself, it can be difficult to identify and articulate what you need to make sense of.
While many practices teach you to ignore or suppress these states, Inqwire provides you with a variety of guided exercises designed to help you work productively with different kinds of painful states. Working with these exercises can often be enough to get relief, can help you reveal what you need to make sense of, and can even lead to clarifying insights.
These tools train you in pulling yourself out of negative states, noticing when your attention is being trapped in different ways, and restoring a quality of attention where you can be with yourself and listen for what needs to be made sense of.
When the contents of our mind, such as our thoughts, feelings, emotions, and sensations, are nebulous, fuzzy, or unclear, we need to find a way to work with that content until we can clearly identify it for what it is.
Inqwire provides you with tools and exercises to help you go from fuzzy to clear and identify what you want to need to explore deeper. You can work with guided exercises to help you, or write out your thoughts and Inqwire will automatically break down your writing into topics you can work with.
These tools train you in working productively with the contents of your mind when your thoughts are fuzzy, overwhelming, and negative, such as in 'negative self-talk'.
Breaking down and articulating what you want to make sense of into different factor type is a critical step of making sense of things.
Inqwire provides you with a digital chalkboard tool to help you visualize your thoughts on the page, work with aspects of the problem spatially, and capture thoughts and insights.
You can also access valuable custom forms about factors and fluidly consider insightful exercises to help you clarify the problem and reach insights.
This tool trains you in sorting and labeling concepts, working with spatial relationships between concepts, and defining aspects of a problem so that you can tackle it productively.
Emulative Thinking is an essential and powerful tool for making sense of things. But not all questions are good for you.
Inqwire is built with a one-of-a-kind [THINKING_TEMPLATE_LOWER] engine that generates a comprehensive set of safe, high quality forms around any factor. These forms are specifically designed to help you reach the insights and understanding you need to make sense of things.
You'll be taken through an inquiry process to consider thought experiments, answer questions, and make connections between the factors you’re working with.
As you explore, you’re able to follow your curiosity and choose your own adventure through different trains of thought until you reach the insights and understanding you need.
This tool trains you in following your senses through an inquiry process to reach insights, asking yourself better questions, and learning what quality questions feel like so you can protect yourself from low quality and harmful questions.
When you make connections between factors using the generated forms, Inqwire automatically builds a connected model of your life behind the scenes.
You can then use this model as a powerful tool to explore the influences between factors and find cycles and feedback loops in your life. This can help you reach deeper insights and understanding about your life as well as reveal opportunities to make effective life changes.
You can also expand on your model by connecting new factors in context.
This tool trains you in systems thinking about your life, understanding how influences work across your life, and developing strategies for making effective changes.
Life outlook is an ever-changing sense of how well we feel we can navigate towards where we want to go in life. It helps us get a sense of what areas make more or less sense in our lives.
The more you make sense of things, the more your life outlook improves.
If you track your life outlook while making sense of things, it can give you valuable feedback about if you made progress or if there’s still more to do.
The more you track your life outlook, the more you can learn about what’s effective for you when making sense of things, what parts of your life need more attention, and how to navigate towards what’s good for you and away from what isn’t.
"(After 3 weeks) 'Before Inqwire I was constantly in the background thinking about my life without really even noticing. Now it is like all of that is cleared out. I feel as though I found a center I didn't know I had, or forgot I had."
You'll get 4 dedicated coaching calls to help you be successful with learning and applying the skills of sensemaking to your life. Your dedicated coach will be there to answer questions, help you troubleshoot, and support you towards getting the most value out of the tools and process.
Inqwire comes with built-in training that gives you education and exercises to help you develop essential cognitive skills for making sense of things, including:
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21st-century cognitive science has completely changed the scientific understanding of the brain and what's needed for psychological well-being.
It's now known that we all rely on a powerful form of intelligence called 'natural intelligence' to successfully make sense of things and make sense of things.
But when our natural intelligence breaks down, it leads to painful psychological states, the inability to think clearly, failing to make sense of things, and much more.
While other mental health and wellness apps are based on outdated science, Inqwire is the only solution based 100% on principles distilled from 21st-century cognitive science to restore and enhance your natural intelligence.
Learn more with about The Most Powerful Kind of Intelligence.
Many of the top mental health and wellness apps "track, share, and capitalize on their users' most intimate personal thoughts and feelings."
Even for the companies that don't exploit their users' data, most still store their users' personal thoughts and writing in the cloud where it is vulnerable to breaches and hacks. And any company offering an AI chatbot that operates on big data requires the use of your data or the data of others to train their algorithms.
Inqwire is specifically engineered to deliver a productive, transformational service without storing anything from your personal life. Your private personal information stays safe with you, stored only on your device.
Learn more about how we do data different.
"I feel more secure with Inqwire because I know that my writing is only being seen by me."
In 1966, the first AI therapy chatbot, ELIZA, was created by Joseph Weizenbaum to imitate a human therapist. Users of the system were observed to take on "delusional thinking" that the system was intelligent, had thoughts, and could have empathy.
This became known as the ELIZA effect, "the susceptibility of people to read far more understanding than is warranted...words strung together by computers."
Weizenbaum was shocked that users were so easily put under a spell to trust and open their hearts to a machine, and spent the rest of his career warning others of the risks of trusting AI systems.
That has not stopped modern entrepreneurs from attempting to recreate AI chatbots, with sometimes disastrous consequences, see here, here, and here.
AI chatbots can give harmful life advice, present false information in a believable way, ask low quality and harmful question forms, all while creating the illusion that that they are trustworthy and that they know what's best for us.
Trusting an AI chatbot can make us susceptible to adopting false beliefs, making bad decisions for our lives, and getting caught in harmful thought processes the block our natural intelligence for making sense of things.
This is why AI chatbots and making sense of things don't mix.
Inqwire is not an AI chatbot, does not pretend to be a human, and does not tell you what to do with your life.
Everything about Inqwire is designed to restore, protect, and enhance your own natural intelligence for making sense of things in life and making your own decisions about what's best for your unique circumstances.
Inqwire can support you in reaching insights and understanding around anything you are struggling with in life.
"I can't believe how quickly I got down deep into some insights that I did not have before."
Maybe you've been trying hard for years to make sense of something big in your life and nothing has worked. You might be feeling drained, hopeless, demoralized, and feel like maybe it's not possible to reach clarity.
More often than not, when you can't make sense of something, it's because there are pieces of the puzzle that you’re missing. These missing pieces will never be found by thinking about things in the same way you've been thinking about them, or looking harder for answers in the same places you've been looking. Instead, you need a way to look in new places and think about things in different ways.
The problem is that most products, approaches, systems, or methods out there don’t help you do this. Instead, they try to convince you that they have the missing pieces you need, and then sell them to you, even when they’re the wrong fit. We are bombarded with a menu of pre-defined solutions we can choose from, and many people get lost or stuck in painstaking analysis to try to find the right choice.
Inqwire is the only tool that’s designed to accelerate your own ability to find the pieces you’ve been missing so you can make sense of things and reach clarity about life, without prescribing anything, giving you advice, or telling you what to do.
It does this by giving you skills and tools for breaking out of the thinking patterns you've been stuck in, finding new ways to approach the problem, and systematically searching for answers where you haven't looked before.
As you find the missing pieces, you will come to reach a deeper level of understanding about things in your life. As a result of this understanding, what to do will become clear. You might reveal that you need to take a certain action, make a specific change, wait for a change to happen, or even take no action at all.
Instead of getting overwhelmed with analysis, list-making, or hard thinking to pick a pre-defined solution that may not work for you, Inqwire enables you to find your own path and reveal clear solutions that make sense for you and your life.
Unlock the power of your own natural intelligence to find opportunities for insight, growth, and understanding around whatever you're struggling to make sense of in life.
Inqwire is a public benefit corporation with a mission to empower people to make sense of things on their own and create a world that makes sense.
This means our #1 priority is your success. If you're not making progress with making sense of things, just contact support and we'll do what we can to help.
If we still can't help you make progress, we'll give you your money back.
Learn More About Us →Inqwire is based on a synthesis of science from across fields that, taken together, contribute to a general understanding of what the brain needs for learning and growth. Learn more about our story.
Nothing you enter or write about in Inqwire is stored on the cloud in our servers. Everything is saved directly to your computer or phone. If you'd like to keep your data synced across multiple devices, you have the option of storing your data in a cloud storage service of your choice.
If for any reason you aren't finding success with Inqwire, or you aren't happy with the level of success you're having, send us a message. We will do everything in our power to help you, and if we can't, we will refund the full amount of your purchase.
Sometimes Inqwire users make sense of something within just a few minutes of using Inqwire. Other times it takes many separate sessions.
No matter how long it takes, Inqwire users report reaching insights and increasing their understanding throughout the process of making sense of things.
Yes, if you have questions about the tools or the process of making sense of things, there is a trained support team standing by to help you with what you need. You can reach them through contacting support and someone will reply to help as soon as possible.
Inqwire is for anyone who needs to make sense of things in life, but are struggling, blocked, or stuck in some way.
Inqwire is best for those who also motivated to invest the time and energy into learning new skills and tools. Making sense of things with Inqwire can often lead to fast results, but sometimes it can take a continued effort to make sense of some things.
Inqwire is also a good fit for people who have been unsuccessful or unsatisfied with other approaches to make sense of things, such as journaling, talking things out with others, meditating, searching for answers or advice on the Internet, reading self-help books, or other approaches.
Compared to things like AI chatbots, meditation and meditation apps, journaling and journaling apps, self-help books, and getting help from others, Inqwire is the only option that is simultaneously:
And unlike most solutions for psychological growth and well-being, Inqwire is free from known mechanisms of psychological harm, big data algorithms, personal data collection, diagnoses, judgment, social pressure, and misleading advice.
Inqwire is a natural intelligence technology (NI), which is in many ways the complete opposite of modern artificial intelligence (AI).
AI attempts to solve problems and perform tasks that would normally be done by a human. NI technology is designed to augment and enhance your own human intelligence to solve real world problems.
When it comes to making sense of things, the human brain is not only vastly superior and more powerful than any AI system, your unique brain is the only thing that is capable of making sense of and navigating your unique life.
This is because making sense of things requires higher levels of cognition that only the human brain can perform. No AI system is capable of thinking or operating at these higher levels.
Even if an AI system of the future was capable of these higher levels of cognition, only your brain has access to all the information that’s needed about your life to make sense of it and navigate it successfully.
Because of this, it would be nonsensical and even dangerous to allow any AI system to attempt to generate solutions to your personal problems, make major life decisions for you, or tell you what direction to go in life.
Instead, you can avoid harm and get better results by using tools that augment and enhance your brain’s native abilities to solve your own personal problems, make your own life decisions, and choose the best direction for your life.
NI technology might be a new and unfamiliar concept, but you have likely been using NI tools for years without realizing it. NI is what computing systems and software has been predominantly designed for since the beginning of computing.
We created computers to overcome our own cognitive limitations, enabling us to enhance and augment our intelligence for the purpose of solving some of the world’s hardest problems such as weather prediction, scheduling and planning, space travel, and now - making sense of things in life.
There are three kinds of results that you can expect from using Inqwire over time. You should expect to gain clarity about your life, gain new skills, and start to experience positive effects on your life.
First and foremost, you should expect to reach insights that increase your clarity around things you're trying to make sense of in life. The amount of progress you make will depend on what you're trying to make sense of and the quality of time you spend with Inqwire.
You will learn and practice the essential cognitive skills needed to make sense of things on your own.
With practice, you should expect to continually strengthen and maintain a new set of cognitive skills that you can apply to your life.
These cognitive skills include:
Researchers who study meaning-making find that the ability to make sense of life and the resulting feeling that one's life has meaning correlates with just about every measure of well-being and anti-correlates with a variety of illnesses, diseases, and disorders.
The more you develop this sense that your life has meaning through making sense of things in life, you could start to experience a number of positive effects through the use of Inqwire over time.
These effects could include:
Unlock the power of your own natural intelligence to find opportunities for insight, growth, and understanding around whatever you're struggling to make sense of in life.