FREESKILL v1.0UPDATED 2026-08

Think Big

Think Big changes the system, constraint, or customer outcome, then matches each bold choice to evidence, reversibility, and a practical path.

Multiplying a target does not make a plan ambitious. It usually preserves the same mechanism, hides the same assumptions, and adds an unsupported promise. A useful expansion starts with the outcome, then asks which rule, sequence, resource assumption, or customer boundary should change.

This playbook classifies constraints as fixed, chosen, or unknown and decisions as two-way, one-way, or unclear doors. It selects a thesis only when the evidence supports one, starts with a bounded test, and keeps exploration separate from approval and commitment.

A bigger number is not a bigger idea. Change the mechanism.

SIGNALS YOU NEED THIS

The bold version is the current plan with a larger target.

A tradition or policy is treated as fixed without evidence or an owner.

The vision has no bounded test, evidence gate, stop rule, or authorized decider.

REPLACES

Mechanical target inflation, vision language without a mechanism, and reckless one-way bets disguised as ambition.

PAIRS WITH

10x Strategy Meeting, Working Backwards, Business Goals, Prioritization Formula, and Values and Competencies.

0 of 4 steps complete

STEP 01Anchor the outcome and expose the rules

State the current plan, customer, problem, and consequence. Classify each apparent constraint as fixed, chosen, or unknown instead of treating inherited rules as facts.

CURRENT PLAN
  Remove one step from an eight-step setup flow.
OUTCOME
  Help a new user reach a first useful result in one session.
RULE TO QUESTION
  Existing sequence: Unknown until evidence and authority are supplied.

STEP 02Change the mechanism and test the thesis

Describe a fundamentally better end state, generate relevant alternatives, and choose the strongest supported mechanism. Keep competing theses visible when evidence cannot separate them.

10X THESIS
  Replace setup completion as the finish line with a guided path to one useful result.

EVIDENCE GAPS
  Customer evidence: Evidence needed
  Useful-result baseline: Evidence needed

STATUS
  Proposed thesis, not an approved plan.

STEP 03Match evidence to each door

Classify material choices by reversibility. Move two-way doors through bounded tests. Require stronger proof, an authorized decider, and explicit safeguards for one-way or unclear doors.

DOOR ANALYSIS
  Guided prototype: Two-way door
  Evidence: observed task completion and failure points
  Revert rule: stop if the guardrail is breached

  Data migration: Unclear or one-way door
  Required: stronger evidence, product lead decision, separate safety review

STEP 04Build the practical path

Start with the smallest test that can invalidate the thesis. Add capacity assumptions, owners, dates, evidence gates, guardrails, and explicit stop, continue, or scale rules.

FIRST TEST
  Milestone: low-fidelity guided-session prototype
  Capacity: one designer and one engineer
  Owner: Owner needed
  Due date: Date needed
  Continue: supported customer value and no guardrail breach
  Stop: thesis fails or required review cannot be satisfied

Download the folder into your agent's skills directory. It uses only the material you provide and makes no remote calls.

skills/think-big

think-big/
├── SKILL.md                         ← expand and audit modes
├── meta.yaml                        ← version, sources, test prompts, changelog
├── LICENSE.md                       ← MIT
├── assets/
│   ├── 10x-plan-template.md         ← outcome, doors, bets, and path
│   └── think-big-audit-scorecard.md ← reasoning and downside audit
└── references/
    ├── ambition-calibration.md      ← under, just-right, and over ranges
    └── door-and-assumption-tests.md ← constraint and reversibility tests

INVOKE IT LIKE THIS

"Give me the 10x version of this plan."

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