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Rationality Toolkit

CFAR-INSPIRED

Twelve 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.