Thirteen Days
Crisis decision-making under time pressure
October 1962. Soviet missiles in Cuba. The ExComm table is crowded with generals and advisors and the president is looking at you. Thirteen days to find the decision that prevents nuclear war — without blinking first.
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Thirteen Days
→October 1962. Soviet missiles in Cuba. The world is thirteen days from nuclear war. Inside the ExComm crisis room, you must read the room before the room reads you — and find the decision that holds the line without crossing it.
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Decisions That Shaped the World
→Five moments that changed history. The Cuban Missile Crisis, Gandhi's Salt March, the Berlin Airlift, Mandela's negotiation table, the Marshall Plan pitch. Each one was a decision made by a person under pressure. Practice the skills those decisions required.
What you'll learn from Thirteen Days
This scenario focuses on Crisis decision-making under time pressure — a critical skill inside the broader history domain. You'll face a decision where the instinctive response is often the wrong one. After you make your choice, you'll see exactly what happened in the other person's head and why it mattered. The scenario is part of Thirteen Days, a full interactive story inside the Decisions That Shaped the World quest.
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What started with thirteen days just got more complicated. Now you need to analyze pivotal historical decisions using modern decision-making frameworks — and the situation is shifting faster than your first approach can handle.
This is the moment you've been building toward. Recognizing when group pressure is distorting everyone's judgment — including yours — except now the stakes are real and there's no rehearsal. What you do next matters.
You've faced the hardest part. Now turn what you've learned into something sustainable — a way to analyze pivotal historical decisions using modern decision-making frameworks not just today, but every time this situation returns.
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