Pre-Mortem: How Will This Fail?

Daniel Kahneman invented the pre-mortem because we're terrible at imagining our own failures. This forces the brain into the failure-state. The prompt targets Claude Opus and lives in the Validation & Strategy category on mycopyprompt.

This prompt is written for Claude Opus. It's a text/chat prompt — paste it into Claude Opus (or compatible LLMs like Claude or GPT-4) to get the expected output.

1. Click the Copy button on this page to copy the full prompt. 2. Open Claude Opus. 3. Paste the prompt into a new conversation. 4. Replace any {placeholders} with your specifics, then send. Most prompts produce the right output on the first try; complex ones may need 1-2 iterations.

Yes — every prompt on mycopyprompt is free forever. No paywall, no signup wall for browsing or copying. You can use it for personal or commercial work, just don't redistribute the entire mycopyprompt library.

Absolutely — most prompts are templates. Look for {placeholders} (curly braces) and swap them with your own values. You can also reword sections, add constraints, or chain it with other prompts.