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Leadership
Inversion Thinking (Munger)
Instead of asking "how do I succeed?" ask "what guarantees failure?" then avoid it.
Digital & AI
Chain-of-Thought: "Think Step by Step"
Ask the model to decompose the problem and show its reasoning before answering, raising accuracy on complex tasks.
Digital & AI
Force Explicit Chain-of-Thought
Add "think step-by-step inside <thinking> tags before answering" — boosts complex-problem accuracy 30-40%.
Digital & AI
AI as Rubber Duck for Thinking
Explain your problem to the model out loud. You often find the solution while explaining, before its reply.
Professional
Inversion Thinking
Instead of "how to succeed?", ask "how to fail?" — then avoid the list.
Psychological
Decatastrophizing
Break "imagined worst" into realistic probabilities and your coping capacity.
Administrative
Inversion Thinking
Instead of "how do I succeed?", ask "how would I fail confidently?" — then avoid each item.
Digital & AI
Chain-of-Thought Prompting
Ask the model to "think out loud" step by step before the final answer, especially for logic and math problems.
Leadership
Second-Order Thinking
Don't stop at the immediate consequence; ask "and then what?" three times.
Professional
Pre-Mortem
Before executing decision, imagine it failed in a year, enumerate most likely failure causes.
Leadership
Kill the Company: Self-Disruption Exercise
Gather team, ask: "How could you destroy our company in 5 yrs?". Answers = vulnerabilities to fix before a competitor does.
Social
Let Me Think and Get Back to You
Do not commit on the spot. Request 24 hours to think before any new obligation.
Leadership
Moonshot Framing: 10x Not 10%
Instead of "How to improve 10%?", ask "How to achieve 10x?" to force the team to think from first principles.
Social
Reading Silence Across Cultures
Before reading a colleague's silence in a meeting, ask: is it thinking, respect, or deferred refusal?
Leadership
Scenario Planning: 4 Possible Futures
Instead of predicting one future, write 4 radically different scenarios. Your plan survives all four.
Parenting
Sensory-Friendly Outing Planning
Plan a family outing with a proactive sensory-trigger scan, not reliance on luck.
Social
Confess Mistake Before Discovery
When you err, confess before discovery — confession timing dictates the penalty.
Administrative
Upward Stakeholder Management
Your boss has little time, many concerns — use 4 principles to be a smart stakeholder.
Leadership
Weekly Status Memo to Your Manager
Every Friday, send manager 5-sentence memo: done, stuck, need. Saves them hours of meetings.
Leadership
COI Disclosure
When sensing conflict of interest, declare it before discussion begins.
Parenting
Risk Talk Without Lecture
Talk to your teen about drugs, sex, reckless driving before the moment arrives — dialogue not lecture.
Parenting
Training Siblings to Mediate Their Own Disputes
Teach them mediation steps before conflict — not during it — so they become their own mediators, not always needing your verdict.
Digital & AI
Boredom Tolerance Training
Daily 10 min in queue/elevator/wait without opening phone — restore your brain's capacity to be bored.
Psychological
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Automatic Thought Record
Catch today's most painful automatic thought and break it into facts and alternative interpretations.
Psychological
Spot the Ten Cognitive Distortions
Run your current thought through the list of ten to pinpoint exactly which mental trap caught you.
Psychological
The "And Then What?" Decatastrophizing Chain
Run the catastrophe scenario through to the end instead of stopping at peak terror.
Psychological
ABC Model Map
Event (A) → Belief (B) → Consequence (C): break the assumption that events cause emotions directly.
Psychological
Catastrophe to Probability
Each catastrophe has 0-100% probability. Assign it — shrinks size.
Psychological
Overgeneralization Decoding
"Always", "never", "everyone", "no one" signal overgeneralization.
Psychological
Reattribution
If error occurred, 100% your fault? Usually no. Recalibrate share.
Psychological
"I'm a Failure" Audit
"I'm a failure" needs 5 evidence + 5 counter. Write them.
Psychological
Unsent Thank-You Letter
Write thanks letter unsent — for yourself.
Professional
Pre-Mortem Analysis
Imagine your decision failed a year from now and write the reasons today — preventing 70% of catastrophes.
Professional
Ideal Week Planning
Draw ideal week before others fill it.
Professional
Task Stripping
Per task: essential? Delete rest.
Professional
Strategic-Operational Balance
1 strategic / 10 operational.
Professional
Scheduled Airplane Mode
Airplane mode 9-11AM and 4-6PM — protected focus peaks.
Professional
How-Question Strategy
Instead of direct "no", say "how can I do that?" — opponent solves your problem.
Professional
1-on-1 Agenda Ownership
Don't let manager set 1-on-1 agenda — send 3 points one hour before meeting.
Professional
10/10/10 Rule
Before any decision, ask: how will I view this in 10 minutes, 10 months, 10 years?
Professional
Reversible Sort
Sort 10 upcoming decisions into reversible/irreversible columns and set their speed.
Professional
Self-1 vs Self-2
Self-1 (critic) sabotages Self-2 (doer) — watch inner dialogue during performance.
Administrative
Project Pre-Mortem
Before starting, imagine the project failed in six months and write down why.
Administrative
Five Whys for Every Recurring Problem
Don't treat symptoms. Ask why five times to reach the root cause.
Administrative
Monthly Risk Register
List your top 10 risks with probability, impact, and owner; review the first Monday each month.
Administrative
"Consider the Opposite" Practice
Before confirming a decision, spend 10 minutes writing the counter-case forcefully.
Leadership
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Pre-Mortem: Imagining the Decision Failed
Before committing to a big decision, imagine it failed a year from now and list three primary causes.
Leadership
Reversible vs Irreversible Doors
Distinguish decisions you can reverse cheaply from those you can't — then treat them differently.
Leadership
Devil's Advocate
Designate one person — or take the role yourself — as official critic before approving any major decision.
Leadership
Steelmanning the Opposition
Before refuting an opposing view, write its strongest version honestly.
Leadership
Red-Team Exercise
Task a separate team with attacking your plan as if they were a smart adversary — before reality discovers it.
Leadership
Expected Value Calculation
Don't choose by "most likely outcome" — multiply each outcome's probability by its value, then sum.
Leadership
10-Bias Audit
Before any major decision, check 10 common cognitive biases that may distort your judgment.
Leadership
Imagined Advisory Board
Convene a mental meeting with 5 imaginary experts before any major leadership decision.
Leadership
Stay Interview
30 min with a top performer, 5 questions on "why you stay and why you might leave" before they actually consider leaving.
Leadership
Monkey Management
Each time a report brings a problem, the monkey jumps on your back. Your job: keep it on theirs.
Leadership
Mini Pre-Mortem for Leaders
15 min before a big decision: imagine it failed a year later, list 5 likely causes with mitigations.
Leadership
Onboarding Your Manager (Not the Reverse)
When joining a new manager (or they join you), give them YOUR user manual. How you work best? What annoys? What you need?
Digital & AI
Detecting Model Hallucinations
Learn 4 signals that reveal the model invented info instead of citing documented fact.
Digital & AI
Hallucination Check: 3 Questions Before Accepting
Before accepting any AI answer, ask: source? dates correct? names real?