Thinking Process templates

Work on your own problem with the Thinking Process tools. Everything stays in this browser. Press Check my work to test your wording and logic against the rules, or Copy for review to paste it into Claude for a fuller review.

Undesirable effectsList the recurring problems, worded by the seven rules. Conflict cloudFour cloud types, assumptions on every arrow, and the injection. Negative branchTest an injection for what could go wrong, and trim it. ConsolidationTurn three UDE clouds into one core conflict. Current reality treeConnect UDEs to their causes and see the tree drawn.

New to the tools? The free Thinking Process Workshop teaches each one with worked examples, and uses these same templates for its exercises: anything you write there appears here too.

About the checks

The checks apply the wording and logic rules of the TOC Thinking Process: the rules for writing UDEs, the guidelines for the five boxes of a cloud, the rules and typical mistakes in surfacing assumptions, the kinds of injection, and the categories of legitimate reservation for trees. They look for patterns in your words, so they can miss things and can flag things that are fine. They can’t tell whether your content is true for your situation: only you, and the people who live in it, can test that.