Cognitive Atlas
Explore the cognitive moves.
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- Quick RecipesShort methods that combine cognitive moves. Explore situations, examples, and related possibilities.Open guide +Expand23 branches
- Target stateA specified future condition you intend to reach and recognize by a deadline.Open guide +Expand5 branches
- Acceptable regionA set of outcome combinations that all count as satisfactory because multiple configurations can serve the purpose.Open guide +Expand5 branches
- Directional improvementA commitment to move a valued variable in a better direction without pretending you know the optimal endpoint.Open guide +Expand5 branches
- Preservation or resilienceA goal to maintain or rapidly recover something valuable through expected shocks and variation.Open guide +Expand5 branches
- Prevention or floorA destination centered on keeping a critical variable above a minimum or stopping an unacceptable state from ever occurring.Open guide +Expand5 branches
- Learning or explorationA destination whose product is decision-relevant information rather than immediate performance.Open guide +Expand5 branches
- Practice or participationA destination defined by repeatedly enacting a valued practice, where the value lives in the doing, not a finish line.Open guide −Collapse5 branches
- Adaptive policyA destination expressed as an if-then rule that changes your action or target when conditions change.Open guide +Expand5 branches