Up: [[Pay Attention MOC]] Created: 2024-01-29 If your natural inclination is to say ‘no’ to things, ask yourself a weighted question designed to push you in direction of ‘yes’ —*If research shows that I’m generally better off saying yes to bold decisions, why not say yes to this one?* If natural inclination is to say ‘yes’, the question is, *If I’m saying yes to this, what am I saying no to?* # Cancel-Elation Question A good question to use to see if you really want to say ‘yes’ to an invitation comes from Dan Ariely and is appropriately named the ‘cancel-elation’ question. *If I accept this invitation and the event gets cancelled, how would I feel?* If the answer is ‘elated’, you didn’t want to go in the first place. > [!User] Warren Berger, *The Book of Beautiful Questions*