Editorial contribution · Personal
The values game: eight small dilemmas
More money or more time? Explore what matters to you in eight everyday situations.
Published: · Version 1
A prompt to try
Give me eight short, realistic everyday dilemmas, each with two options such as more free time or more money. Use at most three sentences each. Ask one at a time and wait. I may explain, ask for context or skip. Do not comment on my choices yet. Then cautiously infer five possible values and suggest a provisional order. Support each with an answer and explain how different circumstances could change the choice. This is a conversation game, not a validated personality test. A spontaneous answer is not automatically more honest. Ask which interpretation does not fit and revise it. Start with dilemma 1.
Copy the text into your AI, fill in the placeholders and check the answer.
Why try this?
Concrete trade-offs can be more revealing than listing ideal values.
What you need
- No preparation needed.
How to start
- Copy the prompt, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude and fill in the placeholders.
- Add your details; answer any follow-up questions one at a time.
- Check and correct the result, then choose a useful next step.
What an answer could look like
Illustrative example · not a tested AI response
Illustrative example: Free time mattered three times; an urgent family expense might change that.