Practice library
Practice skills in realistic situations
Every exercise here is ready to use. Start with an AI roleplay for a live conversation, or choose a focused written challenge.
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AI roleplays
Respond in the moment, adapt to the counterpart, and receive feedback on the conversation.
De-escalate a Defensive Teammate
Scenario: A teammate missed two deadlines. You need to address it. They feel criticized easily and get defensive. Your goal is to keep this calm and productive, not to 'win'.
Address Partner's Blame Perception
Scenario: You mentioned that the dishes weren't done, and your partner immediately got defensive, saying "Here we go again, everything's my fault." They feel like you're always criticizing them. Your goal is to repair the moment and address the underlying pattern without making it worse.
Continue, Pivot, or Stop?
You have invested months in a product with weak commercial traction. The advisor is intelligent, direct, and unwilling to accept craft, learning, or future potential as substitutes for evidence.
Choose One Project, Kill Two
Several credible projects compete for your attention. Each has some strategic value, but fragmented effort is preventing decisive commercial validation.
The Customer Who Refuses to Pay
The service was delivered under time pressure. The customer benefited, but now disputes the fee and treats your wish to remain helpful as leverage.
The Deepfake Before the Board Vote
A viral audio clip appears to show your CEO bribing a regulator. A board member wants an immediate suspension. The metadata is incomplete, the source is anonymous, and delaying the vote has real commercial costs.
Twelve Minutes in the Control Room
You lead a simulation at an experimental energy facility. Cooling pressure is falling, one sensor is known to produce false alarms, and a full shutdown may destroy a year-long experiment. You have twelve simulated minutes.
The Hostile Live Interview
Your organization cancelled a popular but failing program. The decision harmed some participants, and the public explanation was vague. You are live on air with no opportunity to edit your answer.
The Researcher Who Vanished
A researcher failed to reach a mountain rendezvous. Their final message—“route compromised, using old plan”—could indicate weather, injury, equipment failure, or deliberate avoidance. Search daylight is disappearing.
The Merger Dinner
You are mediating privately after a merger dinner collapses. One founder insists on the CEO title; the other says governance is non-negotiable. Employees will learn about the deal tomorrow morning.
Rebuild the Festival in 36 Hours
A waterfront culture festival loses its venue after a structural inspection. You have 36 hours, a fixed safety limit, a modest contingency budget, and access to several strange city spaces that were never designed for events.
Negotiate With Tomorrow Night
You have failed the same evening routine three times. In this simulation, your counterpart is you tomorrow night: tired, mildly resentful, and excellent at making exceptions sound reasonable.
The Mess in the Mars Habitat
During a four-month Mars habitat simulation, shared tools and food packaging are repeatedly left in an airlock staging zone. The mess is annoying, but it also delayed an emergency drill. No one can leave the habitat.
The Last Seat Home
You joined a remote six-month conservation project led by a celebrated director. Workload has escalated, concerns are mocked in meetings, and the last routine transport home departs tomorrow. Leaving has career and team costs.
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Key exercises
Build arguments, rewrite difficult messages, assess evidence, and reflect with structured prompts.
Detect Confirmation Bias (Subtle Cases)
Confirmation Bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, and recall information in ways that confirm our pre-existing beliefs or hypotheses. Focus on how evidence is selected, interpreted, or dismissed — not on whether the conclusion itself is correct.
Evaluate Credibility
Source: TechInsightsDaily.blog
Three-Question Credibility Check
This exercise helps you systematically assess credibility by examining three key dimensions: source reliability, evidence quality, and potential biases or incentives.
Credibility Check: Social Media Claim
Social media amplifies both truth and misinformation. Use this framework to evaluate claims systematically before sharing or believing them.
Credibility Check: Expert Opinion
Not all experts are equally credible, and even credible experts can be wrong outside their domain. This exercise helps you assess expertise systematically.
Twitter Detox
Transform emotionally charged social media language into professional, respectful discourse suitable for workplace conversations.
Email to Executive
Transform informal communication into professional executive-level correspondence that is clear, actionable, and appropriately formal.
Avoid Escalation - Requirements Disagreement
Transform confrontational language into constructive communication that addresses concerns without creating conflict or defensiveness.
Avoid Escalation - Deadline Pressure
Transform angry, accusatory language into professional feedback that addresses timeline concerns constructively.
Avoid Escalation - Quality Concerns
Transform harsh criticism into constructive feedback that addresses quality issues while maintaining respect and professionalism.
Avoid Escalation - Meeting Interruption
Transform frustrated outbursts into assertive but respectful communication that addresses disruptive behavior professionally.
Avoid Escalation - Resource Allocation
Transform accusations of favoritism into professional discussion about fair resource and opportunity distribution.
Avoid Escalation - Process Disagreement
Transform dismissive criticism of processes into constructive suggestions for improvement that respect the decision-making process.
Build a Precise Claim (Remote Work)
Focus on making the claim specific and evaluatable. Avoid slogans and vague value judgments.
Clarify a Hot Take
Hot take: "AI will destroy most jobs." Your goal is not to persuade, but to make the claim clear, scoped, and testable.
Convince Your Boss in 60 Seconds
Include: what you want, why it matters, and what it costs. Be specific and quantify impact.