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Health, money, work and rights.
Check the cost, benefit, evidence and source.

Start with my situation

A menu of options, not another list of things to fail at.

Start with your question

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Tell us what's happening.

Describe the situation in your own words and find a few relevant guides.

Try one

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“Just a resignation form.”
Would you sign?

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Before you buy it, flip the receipt.

Costs are part of the story.

Big packaging. Small footnotes. Read the part that actually tells you what you get.

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The purchase question

Don’t take multivitamins for longevity or heart protection

Over 14000 male doctors took multivitamins for eleven years. The number of serious heart and vascular problems, as well as deaths, was virtually identical between those who took them and those who didn’t. When nine separate clinic…

A confident sentence is not a source.

Turn the evidence over.

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Guide 4-1 · Author's grade A

Write “what to do” as “if… then…”

Change “I plan to do this” into “If I sit at my desk at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, I’ll start by writing the introduction.” Across 94 separate studies, people who used this phrasing were far more likely to achieve their goals — this effect is moderate to lar…