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life-premortem

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Write the failure story of your year, relationship, move, or big life bet in advance — imagine it's a year later and it went wrong, tell that story vividly, then mine it for the real risks and the cheap things that would have prevented them. Use when someone says 'I'm about to make a big life change', 'what could go wrong with this', 'de-risk my year', or is committing to something large and irreversible. Produces the failure narrative, the extracted risk list with preventatives, and the early-warning signs to watch. The life-scale sibling of a project premortem.

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# Life Premortem Skill

Optimism is required to start big things and dangerous once you've started —
because a mind committed to a plan goes blind to how it fails. The premortem flips
that: instead of asking "what might go wrong?" (which the committed brain swats away),
it says "it's a year from now and this failed — tell me the story of how." That small
framing change unlocks honesty the forward-looking question can't. This skill runs it
at life scale — the move abroad, the marriage, the career pivot, the sabbatical, the
year's resolutions — turning a vivid failure story into a short list of real risks
and the often-cheap things that would prevent them.

## What This Skill Produces

- A **failure narrative**: a specific, vivid story told from one year (or the relevant
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