List positives and negatives for your chosen option. Rate the importance of each (1-5). Sum the weighted scores. Best for: medium-stakes personal or professional decisions.
WHEN TO USE: You have a single option to evaluate against the status quo.

Ask: How will I feel about this decision in 10 minutes? 10 months? 10 years? Short-term emotion vs long-term regret. From Suzy Welch's decision framework.
WHEN TO USE: Emotional decisions where short-term fear conflicts with long-term values.

Project yourself to age 80 looking back. Will you regret NOT taking this action? Jeff Bezos used this to leave his hedge fund job to found Amazon.
WHEN TO USE: Major life decisions where comfort bias pulls toward inaction.

Imagine it's 1 year from now. Your decision turned out to be a failure. What went wrong? Write the failure story. Now ask: can you prevent those causes? From Gary Klein — used by NASA, Google, military planners.
WHEN TO USE: High-stakes, irreversible, or overconfident scenarios.

Is this decision URGENT (must act soon) and IMPORTANT (high impact)?
Q1 URGENT + IMPORTANT → Decide & act immediately
Q2 NOT URGENT + IMPORTANT → Schedule, plan carefully
Q3 URGENT + NOT IMPORTANT → Delegate or simplify
Q4 NOT URGENT + NOT IMPORTANT → Eliminate or ignore
WHEN TO USE: Prioritizing which decisions deserve deep analysis.
ON THIS PAGE: This one is not an analysis framework you pick in step ③ — it classifies every decision from the URGENCY and IMPORTANCE you set in step ①. The quadrant appears on each journal entry, and the distribution across your journal is in the SCIENCE tab.

Instead of asking "How do I succeed?", ask "What would guarantee failure?" List everything that would make this go terribly wrong. Then simply avoid those things. From Charlie Munger / Warren Buffett.
WHEN TO USE: Complex, high-stakes decisions with many unknown risks.