Yes; we had goal-factoring before meeting Geoff Anders (class title when he came as a student and I taught it was “Microeconomics 1: Use Fungibility”, but it involved the same basic motion of picking an action you’re conflicted about (“eating lunch out often”), listing all of the good things and all of the bad things about that action, and then brainstorming toward a new set of actions that would together get you “all of the goods and none of the bads.”
We let him teach it because he was a good instructor and gravitated toward that content, but it was on the schedule before him and would’ve had other instructors, and would’ve become pithy. (I can’t remember who came up with the title; possibly Critch, who used to teach a related class called Aversion Factoring).
Yes; we had goal-factoring before meeting Geoff Anders (class title when he came as a student and I taught it was “Microeconomics 1: Use Fungibility”, but it involved the same basic motion of picking an action you’re conflicted about (“eating lunch out often”), listing all of the good things and all of the bad things about that action, and then brainstorming toward a new set of actions that would together get you “all of the goods and none of the bads.”
We let him teach it because he was a good instructor and gravitated toward that content, but it was on the schedule before him and would’ve had other instructors, and would’ve become pithy. (I can’t remember who came up with the title; possibly Critch, who used to teach a related class called Aversion Factoring).