hierarchy of criteria many things are important as, and…
Page 145 hierarchy of criteria many things are important as, and when useful step is to get a sense of the relative importance of your criteria. Since criteria are context, related, the ones you apply to your work will be different to the ones you applied to your personal relationships we can use criteria to explore an issue like commitment to a job or a group of people. Here is an exercise to explore the criteria in this issue number one) suppose you had committed yourself to a group what would have to be true for you to leave? Find the value or criterion that would motivate you to go. Do not jump to life or death issues at the start, think of something that would be just enough to tip the scale number two) next act Ask what would have to be true to stay on even if number 1 happened? Find the criterion that would override what you discovered at number 1 number three) then ask what would have to be true for you to leave given one and two have happened? Find a more important criterion number for continue until you can go no further, so nothing would induce you to stay on if your last criterion and you are sure to find some interesting ideas and route from one to N.
— from The Landing (Death) · NLP by O'Connor and Seymour