Help me make a decision

Decision MakingDecision fatigueLoss aversionConfirmation biasSunk cost fallacy

When to use

You have a decision to make and want to approach it well.

What you'll get

A structured walkthrough that checks for the most common decision traps, asks the questions you're probably not asking yourself, and ends with a clear recommendation.

The prompt

I need to make a decision about [DECISION]. Here's the context: [CONTEXT].

The options I'm considering are [OPTIONS], and I'm currently leaning toward [LEANING, or "I'm not sure yet"].

Before we dig into the substance, check a few things that research shows reliably distort decisions:

- Is this the right moment to make this at all? If it's important, depleted energy, hunger, or a day packed with back-to-back decisions significantly degrades judgment quality. If any of those apply right now, flag it and suggest I defer.
- Am I framing one option as a "loss" when I should be comparing it the same way as the others? Fear of losing what we already have tends to feel twice as heavy as equivalent potential gain, which skews the comparison.
- Is my current leaning filtering what I'm paying attention to? Once we start to prefer an option, we unconsciously gather evidence for it and discount evidence against it.
- Is there anything I've already invested in one path — time, money, effort — that's pulling me to continue it even when the forward-looking case isn't strong?

Walk me through the decision. Ask whatever you need to understand it properly. Then give me your honest recommendation and tell me what would change your view.
Why this prompt works
The prompt instructs the AI to run through four common decision traps automatically, in plain language, before engaging with the substance. The user doesn't need to know which biases apply — the prompt does that work.

The psychology behind this

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