▲ ▼ Plan Second-Order, Third-Order consequences

posted by Chase , 1192 days ago permalink , show insights

I have realized that almost all of my troubles are because I didn't plan the second-order, third-order consequences of my life's decisions. By choosing the first available option, I have often ended up creating more problems for myself and others around me.

Smart people avoid this by thinking about the second-order, third-order consequences. But not everyone is a chess Grandmaster.

I feel wanting to improve the decision making is the first step and if aided by tools to plan consequences of our options then many can avoid costly mistakes in life.

WHO NEEDS THIS

▲ ▼ Abishek Muthian Ideator , 985 days ago permalink

Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking.

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▲ ▼ Abishek Muthian Ideator , 1191 days ago permalink

I think any solution for planning second-order, third-order consequences needs to be a community effort as a team from startup alone cannot come up possible variations in making decisions.

If there's a community, They can submit different recipes for second-order, third-order decision making based on their personal experiences.

Here's a rough idea for a sample recipe (Ideally should be generated by a UI),

└── Communication/

├── Direct/

│ ├── Stranger/

│ │ └── Small talk required/

│ │ ├── Yes/

│ │ │ └── ...

│ │ └── No/

│ │ └── ...

│ └── Contact /

│ └── Small talk required/

│ ├── Yes/

│ │ └── Can the information used against your objective?/

│ │ └── ...

│ └── No/

│ └── ...

└── Broadcast/

└── People who might be affected by the information/

├── X/

│ ├── Positive outlook of the information/

│ │ └── ...

│ └── Negative outlook of the information/

│ └── ...

├── Y/

│ └── ...

└── Z/

└── ...

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▲ ▼ Chase , 1190 days ago permalink

This looks great, thanks for the effort. So people can use an app to download such recipes to help with their decision making process and also submit theirs as well?

Are you planning to build this?

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▲ ▼ Abishek Muthian Ideator , 1190 days ago permalink

I wish but I have already exhausted my bandwidth for new projects, This is one of those problems which is needed for everyone but only few know that they want it.

But I will be willing to brainstorm ideas here if someone else wants to take dig at building a solution to address this need-gap.

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