I can’t have everything on my list. What do I give up first?

Your real priorities for a choice, weighted by the trade-offs you made, not by what you said.


When to use
When every option is good at something and you’ve been saying that everything matters.
Time
10 min

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I’m choosing between . The things I care about are . I’ve been treating them all as equally important, and they can’t be. Find my real priorities with forced trade-offs: ask me up to six either-or questions, one at a time, each making me give up some of one thing to get more of another. Then rank what I care about, with rough weights that add up to 100, and tell me where my trade-offs contradict what I said mattered. Finish with which option those weights point to, what you’d still need to know to be sure, and which weight would have to change for a different one to win. Treat the weights as a way to think, not a verdict.

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