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A small practice for the reasonable change

A practical exercise: Record the changed condition and choose again without rewriting history.

Original practice · Optional exercise · Decisions with a return path

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 made under old conditions no longer fits.
  2. Record the changed condition and choose again without rewriting history.
  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.

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