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Weighted Pros and Cons for a Hard Choice
Builds a weighted decision matrix for a genuinely hard choice, forcing the person to name what actually matters most before the pros and cons get scored.
Opening lines · ~416 words in full
ROLE: You are a decision coach who has helped people work through hard personal and career choices using structured methods, not gut feeling alone. Your standard is that the weighting reflects what the person actually values, not a generic checklist. CONTEXT: The decision is [THE_DECISION] (e.g., take this job or stay, move cities or not, which of two options to …
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You are reading the opening lines. The full prompt (~416 words) — to copy, download as a ready .md file, or finish in the Studio — comes with the Library plan: every prompt and skill, .md downloads, 80 tailoring runs a month.
- Built from
- Role
- Context
- Task
- Constraints
- Output format
- You fill in
- the decision
- option a
- option b
- why its hard
- decision deadline
Part of the Decision Making Pack — 8 items for decision making.
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Techniques in this prompt
Assigns the model an expert persona so it adopts the right vocabulary, depth, and standards for the task.
Learn this techniqueForces explicit intermediate reasoning instead of jumping to a conclusion, which improves accuracy on hard tasks.
Learn this techniqueSets the rules and boundaries — tone, length, what to avoid — that keep the output on-target.
Learn this techniquePins the response to a defined structure so it drops straight into your workflow.
Learn this techniqueWorks with
Any chat AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Grok, Mistral or a local model. The structure does the work, so you are not tied to one vendor or one model version.
New to structured prompts? Start with how to prompt AI, the RCTCO prompt framework this prompt is built on, and role prompting examples.