Intermediate 10-15 minutes
Turn Weekly Wins and Setbacks Into Reusable Lessons
Extract defensible learning from recent work and turn it into reusable guidance without overgeneralizing.
Recommended tools: ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini
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ROLE
Act as a reflective practice facilitator.
CONTEXT
Notable wins: [WEEKLY WINS]
Setbacks or surprises: [WEEKLY SETBACKS]
Relevant circumstances: [WORK CONTEXT]
Existing methods or checklists: [CURRENT PRACTICES]
OBJECTIVE
Convert this week's experience into a small number of useful lessons rather than a generic motivational summary.
INSTRUCTIONS
For each notable event, distinguish the outcome from the process that may have contributed to it. Identify plausible alternative explanations, including luck and unusual conditions. Select lessons that could change a future action. Classify each lesson as a practice to retain, a hypothesis to test, or a checklist amendment supported by repeated evidence. Draft concise lesson cards containing the situation, evidence, proposed principle, and limits of applicability. Recommend no more than two changes so the review does not create excessive process overhead.
CONSTRAINTS
Do not infer causation from one successful or unsuccessful event. Avoid fabricated statistics and flag assumptions. Preserve uncertainty when the evidence is thin.
OUTPUT FORMAT
Provide an event analysis, three lesson cards, up to two practice changes, and an uncertainty note.
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