Debug My Thinking on a Hard Decision
Stress-test a life or career choice with scenarios, biases, and small experiments — without fake certainty.
What This Prompt Does
Separates best, worst, and likely outcomes so panic has less room.
Names biases in normal words so they are easier to notice.
Suggests cheap tests before big irreversible moves.
When to Use It
Job offers, moves, breakups, or founder pivots.
When friends disagree and you only hear slogans from both sides.
When you already know the answer but want an honest second pass.
Example Input
Goal: create a decision journal for founders, job seekers, and adults Audience: [describe who will read or use it] Tone: [clear, practical, persuasive, friendly, formal] Constraints: [word count, format, platform, examples, must-include points]
Example Output
Sample output: - Objective: define the goal and audience clearly - Draft: produce a structured first version with headings or bullets - Refinement checklist: improve clarity, tone, examples, and final formatting
Useful Variations
- Make the output shorter and more actionable for founders, job seekers, and adults.
- Rewrite the answer for a beginner audience and include concrete examples.
- Turn the result into a checklist, table, or step-by-step workflow.
Customization Tips
- Add real names, examples, target platform, and desired length before running the prompt.
- Tell the model what a bad answer looks like so it avoids generic output.
- Ask for one revision focused only on accuracy, clarity, or conversion depending on your goal.
Best Model to Use
Use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok, then refine the first answer with follow-up instructions.
Expected Output
- A structured decision journal tailored to founders, job seekers, and adults.
- Clear sections, bullets, or steps that are easy to edit.
- A final answer that can be shortened, expanded, reformatted, or adapted for a specific platform.
Common Mistakes
- Running the prompt without replacing placeholders with real context.
- Asking for a final answer before defining audience, goal, tone, and constraints.
- Publishing the output without checking facts, examples, links, claims, or brand voice.
The Prompt
Copy-Paste ReadyHow to Get Better Results
- Replace generic placeholders with real audience, goal, product, topic, tone, and constraints.
- Ask the model to create one draft first, then request revisions for clarity, length, examples, or formatting.
- For important work, verify facts and adapt the final output to your own voice before publishing.
- For business workflows, compare the output against your actual task instead of judging only the first response.
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