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Decisive in Practice: WRAP on Your Real Choices

Someone who meets a hard choice with a short, repeatable process (widening options, testing assumptions, gaining distance, planning to be wrong) instead of gut, a pros-and-cons list or waiting.

Chip and Dan Heath's WRAP process, practised on decisions you actually face. Each Station takes five minutes and one real step: widen your options, test what you assume, step back from the heat, plan for being wrong. It won't make hard choices painless or guarantee good outcomes. It will catch the mistakes that cost the most, while you can still change course.

Widening narrow choices into real optionsReality-testing assumptions before committingAttaining distance from short-term emotionPreparing for being wrongRunning a fair decision process with others
Play Station 1 — free, ~5 min, no sign-up →

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  1. 01The four villains of decision-making

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  2. 02Widen your options

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  3. 03Borrow a solution someone already found

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    Three real options on the table

    Take one real whether-or-not decision and write at least three genuine alternatives, including one borrowed from someone who solved a similar problem.

  5. 04Reality-test your assumptions

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  6. 05Zoom Out to the Base Rate, Then Zoom In

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  7. 06Design an Ooch: Let a Small Test Settle the Choice

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  8. 07Attain distance before deciding

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  9. 08Beat the pull of the status quo

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    Tested against reality and distance

    On the same decision, run one small real-world test or base-rate check and a 10/10/10 review, then note how your lean changed.

  11. 09Rank what matters, then let the ranking decide

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  12. 10Prepare to be wrong

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  13. 11Bookend the Future: Plan for the Floor and the Ceiling

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  14. 12Run WRAP Together, So People Can Commit

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  15. Milestone

    Decided through full WRAP

    Make the decision through full WRAP with the people involved, run a premortem and set at least one dated tripwire that will trigger a review.

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