Purpose: This exercise will help you practice conscious decision-making and improve clarity over time. What to Do: Every evening, jot down three decisions you made during the day, regardless of their perceived importance. For each decision, break it down using the Paul-Elder framework. Identify the purpose, question the assumptions you made, and an

Obviously, we all want good outcomes, but as we’ve seen, good decisions can have bad outcomes, and bad decisions can have good ones. Evaluating decisions—ours or others’—based on the outcome (or how we feel about the outcome) fails to distinguish luck from skill and control. Because of that, engaging in resulting doesn’t help us get better. The res