Your pros-and-cons list didn't help you decide
A pros-and-cons list gives every reason one vote — which is exactly the lie. Watch a job-vs-move dilemma get weighed instead of counted, and the tie the list manufactured disappear.
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Decide when you're too worked up to think.
Real, worked examples of hard decisions, with the Bhagavad Gita behind one clear call — and the reusable way of looking at your own dilemma that you can take with you.
The lens that looks at the version of you deciding
Same dilemma, opposite answer depending on the day. The Gita's gunas explain why — and how the mode you're deciding from quietly reweights the whole read.
The vesting cliff hits your co-founder in a week
A composite founder knot: fire before the one-year cliff and save the equity, or let it vest and honor the handshake. We score the difference between a defensible reason and a convenient one — and name who pays for each read.
You said yes to hosting them. Now you can't say no.
A composite of the open-door offer that quietly hardened into a permanent lease — read through whichever of the eight lenses the decision turns on, with a two-column test to tell the promise you made from the interpretation someone added to it.
You'd take the offer. But it needs a lie on the résumé.
A recruiter inflated your title and one project scope in the packet. You didn't write it — but staying silent seals the deal. KarmaLens scores the quiet trade on three lenses that bite, and names the version of yourself you'd start as on Monday.
You told them once. Now you're 'reminding.' Nagging?
You asked for one change months ago. Now you repeat it weekly and wonder if you've become the thing you hate. We score the line between a boundary and a reminder loop on four fixed lenses — and name which one this actually is.
One lens says kind. Another says cowardice.
You've rehearsed the gentle version of the hard news. A composite manager runs the same softening plan through two lenses — and watches non-harm and honesty score it in opposite directions.
You pasted the chat log. It agreed with the chat.
A composite founder argues a decision with a chatbot for a week, then pastes the whole transcript into a fresh session for a 'fair' read — and it sides with whichever option got more words. Here's why a chat log is the worst possible input for an impartial second opinion.
How the read handles a dilemma you can't state cleanly
Type a run-on with two problems, a disowned option, and a stray excuse — and watch it get untangled on the record before a single lens is scored. A composite walkthrough plus a free test you can run tonight.
Do the Gita lenses always fire in the same order?
You picture eight lenses as a checklist run top to bottom. Watch them reorder on one dilemma — a parent moving in — as the choice turns from reversible to permanent, and a quiet lens becomes the weight that tips the call.
Your investor wants a founder you're not being
A solo founder is coached to perform certainty he doesn't have to close the round. KarmaLens runs the composite through four lenses — and shows why the mask raises the round but loses the crisis.
You keep inviting them. Then you resent every visit.
A composite look at the spouse who keeps saying 'stay as long as you like' — then dreads every stay they invited. Read through the lenses that separate real hospitality from a performance of it, with a two-word test you can run tonight.