Paul Tavis posted this Thinkie. I realized have it too, in slightly different form.
Pattern: progress is blocked by a big, scary worry.
Transformation: quantify the order of magnitude of the worry.
“We can’t do that. It’s too expensive.”
”$1000? $10,000? $100,000?”
”Oh, not $100,000.”
One of the tricks of using this Thinkie is to pick the magnitudes so the la…