Self and commitments¶
Readiness and care¶
Grounding with trusted support; independent planning after basic literacy and numeracy
Reflection is not diagnosis. Do not require disclosure of trauma or private values for assessment.
A qualified mental-health professional for persistent distress or impairment; local emergency services for immediate danger
Use redacted or fictional decision records; assess process rather than compliance with an examiner's values.
Values, commitments & goal hierarchy¶
Understand: values; goals; identity; opportunity cost; roles
Judge: Distinguish chosen commitments from inherited/status incentives; resolve conflicts among goals
Practice: Write and revise a one-year / five-year goal hierarchy
Evidence: Goal map + decision postmortem
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Attention & time governance¶
Understand: attention; calendars; deep work; interruption; energy rhythms
Judge: Know what deserves attention and what should be refused/deferred
Practice: Run a 3-week attention/time experiment
Evidence: Time audit + before/after evidence
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Habits & environment design¶
Understand: cue; friction; routine; reinforcement; precommitment
Judge: Prefer system design to heroic willpower when behavior is predictable
Practice: Build one useful habit and remove one harmful loop
Evidence: Habit protocol + adherence data
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Emotion & self-regulation¶
Understand: emotion; appraisal; stress; impulse; recovery
Judge: Recognize when emotion is information, noise, or a state requiring delay/help
Practice: Use a regulation protocol in a real stressful decision
Evidence: Reflection + observed/recorded outcome
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Decision process & calibration¶
Understand: base rates; forecasts; expected value; uncertainty; regret; reversibility
Judge: Match decision process to stakes, uncertainty, and reversibility
Practice: Maintain decision/forecast journal
Evidence: Calibration and decision review
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Meaning, identity & mortality¶
Understand: identity; narrative; vocation; suffering; mortality; philosophical/religious worldviews
Judge: Hold existential commitments reflectively without confusing meaning with empirical proof
Practice: Write and defend a personal philosophy provisionally
Evidence: Essay + dialogue + revision
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