Become Better Decision Maker
12 weeks · 4 milestones
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Choose one domain where your decisions have mattered (work, finances, a project, health). Review the past 12 months and identify at least 5 decisions where the outcome was worse than you expected. For each, document four things: the decision made, what you believed at the time, what actually happened, and whether the gap arose from a process failure, bad luck, or inadequate information. At the end write a 150-word analysis naming your one most common process failure pattern.
Proof required
Submit your decision audit: a structured document containing at least 5 real past decisions, each with four labelled fields (decision made / belief at the time / actual outcome / root cause: process | luck | information). At least 2 must be classified as process failures with a specific explanation of what process was missing. Append your 150-word signature analysis naming one recurring pattern.
What gets checked
- 5 real decisions with all four fields completed — generic descriptions such as 'made a bad hire' without the specific reasoning at the time do not count
- At least 2 root-cause attributions of 'process failure' with a named specific gap (e.g. 'skipped reference checks', 'no pre-mortem run')
- Signature analysis names one pattern with evidence from at least 2 of the 5 entries — a general observation not tied to the entries is insufficient