RULES

Generate a new option by changing the constraints, dependencies, or exit conditions attached to it.

A friend wants you to co-invest in a rental property. The numbers look decent, but something in your gut resists, and you are stuck treating the choice as take-it-or-leave-it: sign the partnership as offered, or decline and maybe strain the friendship. The deal's terms feel like weather, fixed and beyond you.

RULES generates a new option by changing the constraints, dependencies, or reversibility attached to an action, rather than the action itself. In the framework's option sentence, this edits the final slots: what rules govern it, what it is combined with, and what the exit or review condition is. The cue is an option you would accept if only its terms were different. Run it by rewriting the deal with altered rules: add an exit clause allowing either partner to be bought out at appraisal after two years, cap your liability at your initial stake, or make your commitment contingent on an independent inspection. Each rewritten version is a new candidate your friend can react to. What visibly changes is that a binary yes-or-no becomes a negotiation over structures, and your gut objection gets a concrete address. Leave this move alone when the terms genuinely are fixed, as with regulations; renegotiating the non-negotiable just burns goodwill.