One thing I noticed is that some decision-making experts, such as the author of Values Focused Decision Making, recommends generating options after you’ve defined your criteria, because it helps you spot more options. In our process we generate options before defining the criteria, because we found that people find the ‘define criteria’ step too abstract by itself.
80k also recommends a similar process for making career decisions. There’s a sketch here: https://80000hours.org/career-guide/personal-fit/ And this tool leads you through a similar process: https://80000hours.org/career-decision/
One thing I noticed is that some decision-making experts, such as the author of Values Focused Decision Making, recommends generating options after you’ve defined your criteria, because it helps you spot more options. In our process we generate options before defining the criteria, because we found that people find the ‘define criteria’ step too abstract by itself.