Step 3. Now it’s time to filter the items that are worth pursuing and mitigating from those that we can safely live with. We like to use dot voting***** to identify the fears that we want to mitigate, but you can use another method if you prefer. The more outrageous ideas that helped activate your System 2, such as those involving aliens or secret societies, will almost certainly not survive this process, having served their purpose in encouraging creativity. You will wind up with a subset of the fears that the group wants to deal with—those that are most concerning or most consequential.
