The things that we love tell us what we are.

What you are drawn to describes you more accurately than what you say about yourself. Your stated values are chosen; your affections are not, which is why they give you away. Look at where your attention goes when nothing is required of it, and you have a fairly honest portrait. Self-knowledge is less about introspection than about noticing what you keep returning to.

Spend a few minutes listing the things you have loved without being able to justify it: a subject, a kind of person, a way of spending an afternoon. Ask what they have in common. Then check whether your week has room for any of it.