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10-10-10 Check
Test a choice by asking how it will feel in ten minutes, ten months, and ten years.
Example
You are deciding whether to send an angry message to a friend. In ten minutes you might feel relief. In ten months you might still be patching the friendship. In ten years you probably won't even remember the trigger. The three answers usually disagree.
How it fits in
Different choices look better at different time horizons. Short-term feelings are loud and often wrong about the long run. Running a choice through all three horizons is how you stop the loudest feeling from monopolising the decision. The output is rarely 'pick the long-term answer every time'. It is 'know which horizon is driving you right now'.
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