Prompting Skills playbook/Module 6 · Thinking with AI

Day 57 / 100 · Thinking with AI · Framing the problem

Solve the right problem.

How you frame the question decides the answers you get. Use AI to question the question first.

Symptom or cause?

Move 01

Ask “why?” until you reach something you can fix.

TRY

“Ask me ‘why’ five times.”

Reframe it

Move 02

Turn complaints into questions you can answer.

TRY

“Rewrite this as ‘How might we…’.”

Widen

Move 03

Look for explanations you haven't considered.

TRY

“What else could explain this?”

Narrow

Move 04

Which customers, which channel, since when?

TRY

“Where exactly does this happen?”

Question the question first.