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Advanced: Idea Evaluation and Refinement

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What you will learn

  • Use devil's advocate prompting to stress-test ideas before committing to them
  • Build decision matrices with AI to compare ideas objectively
  • Apply iterative refinement to develop raw ideas into actionable plans
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Advanced: Idea Evaluation and Refinement

You've generated 20 creative ideas. Now what? Most people pick the one that "feels right" — which usually means the one that's most familiar, not the one that's best. This lesson teaches you to use AI to evaluate, stress-test, and refine ideas systematically.

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What's the purpose of a 'pre-mortem' analysis?

Key takeaway

Generating ideas is easy. Picking the right one is hard. Devil's advocate prompting forces AI to attack your best ideas, revealing weaknesses before you invest in them. Decision matrices let you compare ideas across multiple dimensions objectively. And iterative refinement turns a rough 'what if' into a concrete plan with next steps.

Practice Exercise

Hands-on practice — do this now to lock in what you learned

Open an AI assistant and try this:

Pick an idea you've been considering — a project, a side hustle, a process change at work. Run the devil's advocate prompt on it. Read the critique without defending the idea. Then ask yourself: does the idea still hold up? If yes, it's stronger now that you understand the risks. If no, you just saved yourself a lot of wasted effort.

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