Soft preferences

Things you'd like to keep but would trade away for a big enough gain. Each has a price rather than a veto. Test a rule by asking what payoff would make you break it; if some payoff would, it belongs here.

Things you'd like to keep but would trade away for a big enough gain. Each has a price rather than a veto. Test a rule by asking what payoff would make you break it; if some payoff would, it belongs here.

Example

In the fat-loss plan, "I'd rather not count macros" and "I train mornings" are soft. Two weeks of tracking would tell you whether protein is the problem, so you trade that preference away while the seven-hours-of-sleep rule stays untouched.