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Making a Decision

Six cards for an honest comparison of two options: what each one gives, what each one costs, and what you are missing while you choose.

Take it when there are exactly two options to weigh by their cost and gain.

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How to read it

Start with the top card: it says what the choice actually is, and often rephrases the question itself. Then read the columns whole rather than mixed: all of option A first, what it gives and what it costs, then all of option B. Inside each column compare the two cards: if the cost outranks the gain, that option is expensive however much you like it. The bottom card is what you cannot see; it often points to a third road, or to the fact that the decision is already made and simply not admitted aloud.

Positions

  1. The real choice

    What you are truly choosing between, once the convenient phrasing is removed.

  2. Option A: the gain

    What the first road brings into your life within a year, not in daydreams.

  3. Option A: the cost

    What the first road costs: time, people, peace of mind or a part of yourself.

  4. Option B: the gain

    What the second road brings, including what you are not thinking about now.

  5. Option B: the cost

    What the second road will cost and what you lose by choosing it.

  6. What you are missing

    The third option or circumstance that changes the whole calculation once noticed.

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