1, #149 - What would make this easy?
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I love good shortcut questions.
These are the opposite of thought exercises that broaden your conception of what’s possible. A shortcut question helps you take action. I wrote about one—“Which one should we do, first?”—a while ago, but recently came across a new one that I’ve already found helpful:
“What information, if we had it, would make this decision easy?”
Matt Lerner (who shared it) recommends following up with, “What's the quickest way we can get that information?”
Now, information by itself doesn’t drive action, but this sequence cuts through the noise to show you what context might be missing and where you could find it.
And if no new information would make the decision easy? That’s good to know, too. The hardest decisions are hard precisely because there’s no right answer.
You just have to—and get to—choose.
Insight inspired by Matt Lerner, in his excellent newsletter. Thank you, Matt!