Both options feel wrong. What’s the third one?

Your either-or decision restated as a wider question, plus four options you hadn’t put on the table.


When to use
When you’ve framed a decision as this or that, and neither one feels right.
Time
5 min
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The prompt

I’ve framed my decision as a choice between and , and neither feels right. What I’m really after is . First, restate my decision in one sentence as a wider question, built around what I’m after, not the two options. Then give me four options I haven’t listed, including one that combines parts of both and one that does neither, with one line each on what it would cost me. Don’t invent options to be kind: if my two really are the only realistic ones, say so. Flag anything that depends on facts you don’t have. End with the one new option I could try without closing off the others.

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