WRAP Decision Guide

W — Widen your options

List at least 3 options

Most bad decisions come from too-narrow framing ("should I do this or not?"). Force breadth:

• What would you do if your favorite option vanished?
• Could you run both — a small test of each?
• What would a trusted friend suggest you consider?
• What's the opposite of your current leaning?

What are you deciding? Your options (3 minimum) + Add option

R — Reality-test your assumptions

Find the disconfirming evidence

We naturally hunt for proof we're right. For each option, write evidence for it — and evidence against it. The "against" column is the valuable one.

A — Attain distance before deciding

The 10-10-10 lens

Short-term emotion distorts big choices. For each option, how will you feel about it in 10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years? Then pick what you'd advise your best friend to do.

If your best friend were in this exact situation, what would you advise?

P — Prepare to be wrong

Choose, then set tripwires

Every decision can be wrong. A tripwire is a condition you set now — "if X happens, I reconsider" — so future-you isn't fooled by sunk cost.

Your decision Pre-mortem: if this choice fails, what went wrong? Tripwires (at least one): "I will reconsider if…" + Add tripwire Revisit date — when will you check the tripwires?

Your decision brief