Make the Hardest Decision of Your Year Easier
Claude refuses to answer, works out what you actually value, then shows you which single criterion is doing all the work.
You're not undecided, your criteria are hidden.
Job or job. Stay or go. Buy or wait. You've talked about it with 5 people and every one of them gave you their answer, which is useful information about them and none about you.
The decision feels impossible because you're weighing options against criteria you've never written down. You can't compare two things on a list you can't see, so you go round again, and the round is the problem.
This is the one thing I'd never hand to AI to answer. I hand it the sorting and keep the deciding, which is the only version that works.
The prompts
1. Start here
Claude is explicitly not allowed to answer.
I'm deciding between [options]. Do not give me an answer. Ask me 6 questions to work out what I actually value here, then write my criteria back to me in priority order.
2. Go deeper
Shows you where the options really differ.
Now score each option against those criteria and show me where the gap is biggest. Tell me which single criterion is doing most of the work.
3. Bonus
The test for the option you keep flinching away from.
Tell me what would have to be true for the option I've been avoiding to be the right one, and ask me whether I believe it.
Bonus: Make it yours
Add what you'd tell a friend to do in your situation. The gap between that and your own answer is usually the whole thing.
Do this today: write the criteria down, even if you decide nothing. A decision you can see is a decision you can make.
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