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A small practice for the circular approval

A practical exercise: Clarify who can decide and what evidence they need.

Original practice · Optional exercise · Thinking in sequences

Choose a low-stakes example you can change without affecting another person’s private information or commitments.

  1. Describe the current situation in one sentence. The example here is: A decision keeps returning to the person who requested it.
  2. Clarify who can decide and what evidence they need.
  3. Compare the result with the difficulty you named. Write one concrete observation.
  4. Keep, adapt, or stop the experiment. A note about why you stopped is a valid result.

Try a question

What are you asking another person to agree to, and can they comfortably decline?