Rationality Toolkit
CFAR-INSPIREDTwelve interactive tools drawn from CFAR’s applied rationality curriculum. Each one guides you through a structured thinking technique — designed to help you make clearer decisions, resolve internal conflicts, and actually follow through on what matters.
Aversion Factoring
Unpack the hidden reasons you avoid important actions.
Bucket Errors
Identify when you're lumping distinct things into one category.
Double Crux
Find the core disagreement that, if resolved, changes both minds.
Focusing
Tune into your felt sense to surface what you really know.
Freedom of Action
Expand your option space by noticing invisible constraints.
Goal Factoring
Decompose goals to find what you actually want and better ways to get it.
Hamming Questions
Ask yourself: what's the most important problem you could be working on?
Internal Double Crux
Resolve inner conflicts by finding the crux between competing parts of yourself.
Murphyjitsu
Pre-hindsight your plans — imagine failure and patch the holes.
Pride & Self-Recognition
Build the habit of noticing and reinforcing your wins.
Resolve Cycles
Break through loops of indecision and stuck patterns.
Trigger-Action Planning
Wire new behaviors to reliable triggers so they actually happen.