Istvan Joos · author · guide · founder
I created the Three Mountains map to help you understand the journey through success, happiness and meaning—where you are, why the old way may no longer work, and what your next step could be.
The map in brief
“Find yourself.” “Take responsibility.” “Keep going.” “Let go.”
These are not always competing truths. They may answer different questions at different points in a life. The map helps you understand which question is yours.
Mountain I
Mountain II
Mountain III
Recognisable situations
A crisis does not automatically mean you have failed. Sometimes it reveals the limits of a way of living that once worked. The first task is to understand what is actually changing.
Achievement may still be real even when its old promise has stopped carrying you.
Self-knowledge matters. At some point, the next task may ask for more than another explanation.
The question may be less about having a cause than about how your particular life can become useful.
Budapest · author · guide · founder
My story
In my twenties I was a successful internet entrepreneur—and deeply self-centred and arrogant. Then the life I had built collapsed.
I began writing about my wounds as a form of self-therapy, and people began to connect. That became twenty-one years of practical work with human stories. The first Three Mountains map was published in 2015 and has been developed through practice ever since.
Read my storyStart here
Begin with the map, use the questions to notice patterns, or start with the story behind the work.
Your next step
