06Arc 2 / Expand / CHALLENGE / 120 MIN
Think, Brainstorm & Challenge
I can use AI to generate genuinely different options, narrow them using explicit criteria, and attack my preferred idea before I commit to it.
The session
THREE BITES. ONE PRACTICAL MOVE.
06ADiverge: Get Beyond the First Idea
06BConverge: Choices, Criteria & Trade-offs
06CChallenge: Red-Team Your Own Thinking
What you'll practise
- Generate meaningfully different options.
- Narrow options using explicit criteria and trade-offs.
- Challenge a preferred idea before committing to it.
Keep this idea
Use AI to widen the thinking; keep the judgement.
Use this now
CHALLENGE YOUR CURRENT CHOICE
Copy this into your notes, a document, or your AI conversation. It is intentionally plain so it remains useful outside any one tool.
We currently prefer: [OPTION / RECOMMENDATION] Challenge it. 1. What assumptions must be true for this to work? 2. What are the strongest ways it could fail? 3. What evidence would contradict our current view? 4. What are we underestimating? 5. What should we test before committing? 6. What would make us change the decision?
Class rhythm
Feel itExperience the problem or contrast before naming the method.
Name itMake the useful pattern explicit.
Use itApply it to a real work object and inspect the result.
Keep itCapture the part worth reusing after class.