About
Measuring what actually changes a life.
Meaning Atlas continues the work begun at TheChallenge.org, from the same founder and team. There, more than 100,000 people put everyday habits to the test while we measured the real effects on body and mind, and published what we found. Meaning Atlas turns that same honest, measure-it approach toward the deeper question underneath the habits.
TheChallenge.org: a research project at scale
Across 2025, twelve month-long challenges tested popular health habits and measured their effect on physical and mental wellbeing. Not marketing. A for-knowledge project that shared its results openly.
"We're not selling anything. We're learning alongside you."TheChallenge.org
What we learned, study by study
Each challenge ran 28 to 31 days, with daily tracking and a questionnaire afterward. A few of the clearest results:
Meditation
n = 447 · 15 min/dayFifteen minutes a day moved the mind more than the body.
What participants said it gave them
10,000 steps a day
n = 406 · 31 daysA simple physical habit with an outsized mental payoff.
What participants said it gave them
Digital detox
n = 276 · 30 daysThe most useful finding was a surprise: reading 20+ pages a day cut phone use more than the digital-detox challenge itself. Participants reported less anxiety and more presence.
Across all twelve: fifteen minutes of daily yoga scored highest of any habit across every wellbeing measure, and daily gratitude journaling moved mood, calm, and stress more than almost anything else. Small, repeatable, free.
Scores are participant self-reports, averaged. TheChallenge.org published average scores per measure; the per-rating vote distribution is not public, so the gold bars show averages and the teal bars show how often a theme came up in open-text answers.
From habits to meaning
TheChallenge measured how what we do each day shapes how we feel. But the question people kept arriving at was deeper: not just "is this habit good for me," but "is my life pointed at what actually matters to me." On 1 January 2026 TheChallenge.org became a non-profit to publish its findings openly, and Meaning Atlas picked up that deeper question, with the same rule we have always worked by: measure honestly, share what we learn, never overclaim. See the science behind it.
The founder
Karol Banaszkiewicz
Founder
Karol is a technologist, founder, and lifelong health-hacker. His question has always been the same: how do you honestly measure the way our daily choices affect body and mind? That question led him to start and self-fund TheChallenge.org, where more than 100,000 people across 100 countries tested everyday habits while the real effects were measured and shared openly. Meaning Atlas is the next step in that work, bringing the same rigour to a deeper question: where a life draws its meaning, and whether you are living toward it.
Founder, post-exit · Co-founder & board member at Displate · Mentor at Endeavor Poland · Strategic advisor at Mos Health
Meaning Atlas is run by a small team (one to three people) working with AI-native tools rather than a large staff. That is deliberate: it keeps the project independent and sends nearly everything into the research itself.
Our commitment
We take no profit from Meaning Atlas. Every cent beyond what it costs to run goes into the open meaning database and the planned large-scale study. No one draws a salary from it until that study is built. We say this publicly so you can hold us to it.
Who operates it
Meaning Atlas is operated by The Challenge Sp. z o.o., registered in Warsaw, Poland. Full company and contact details are in our Terms and Privacy pages. Questions? hello@meaningatlas.org.
Meaning Atlas is for reflection, not therapy or diagnosis.