Rational brain · Framing & Choice Architecture
Narrative Inversion
Reframing a failure as a deliberate investment, a pivot as a strategy, a loss as a lesson — after the fact — so that accountability dissolves into narrative.
An everyday example
'We always planned to sunset that product' announced the week it failed.
What it can cost you
Accepting a retrofitted story as a plan; losing the ability to learn from what actually happened.
Warning signs
- The plan seems to have changed after the result.
- Nobody is accountable in this version.
One thing to do
Compare the story to what was said before the outcome; if the plan changed after the result, it is a story, not a plan.
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