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Assess the Trigger To Choose the 'Best Problem' (*)

Your Goal

To work out what has made you think you need to make a decision and determine whether you have chosen the 'best problem' to work on

Try the following tasks :-

What Was the Trigger?

• Ask yourself whether some particular event or series of events occured that made you think you needed to make a decision
  
  
• What was this event / series of events?
  
  

Do You Have The Best Problem?

• Step back from what triggered you and ask yourself whether the decision you currently believe you are facing is part of something larger, or if the focus of the problem is really somewhere else.
  
  
• Ask yourself whether your past history (from the previous exercise) has lead you take a limited view as to what the best problem is
  
  
• Ask yourself whether you have a series of linked decisions to make rather than a single one
  
  
• If you view of what the decision facing you is has changed record this in the decision template

* The idea for this exercise came from combining ideas in Smart Choices by Hammond, J., Keeney, R. and Raiffa, H and A Practical Companion to Ethics by A Weston