Second-order thinking is a tool that will help you examine the long-term effects of your decisions. Some decisions seem like wins at first, but turn out to be losses over time. What looked like a good decision earlier is now a bad one. We need to make sure we’re okay with more long term consequences of decisions today.

How to use it?

Consider a decision you have to make.

Second-order thinking in practice

Consider the decision of buying a house outside of the city.

Put it to practice

A handy worksheet to help you put this tool into practice includes a simple how-to guide including an example.

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