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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.

Best For:Founders, Job Seekers, And Adults

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

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I am stuck on this decision: [DESCRIBE IN YOUR OWN WORDS] You are not allowed to decide for me. Instead: 1) Summarise the choice in neutral language. 2) List the best case, worst case, and most likely case for each serious option. 3) Point out 3 cognitive biases I might be under (sunk cost, fear of regret, social pressure, etc.) in plain language. 4) Suggest 5 factual questions I should answer before choosing — things I could google, ask a person, or measure. 5) Offer a simple 7-day experiment I can run to get real-world data before I commit. Keep the tone kind and direct. Say once that you are not a lawyer, doctor, or financial adviser.

How 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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