{
  "schema_version": 2,
  "name": "Brali practical knowledge ontology",
  "description": "A semantic layer over the legacy Growth Zone catalog. Domains describe where a need belongs, Topics describe the problem or skill, Methods describe structured approaches, and Lenses describe transferable ways of thinking borrowed from other disciplines.",
  "terminology": {
    "domain": "Broad area of practical life or work.",
    "topic": "Concrete problem, capability, or outcome people can work on.",
    "method": "Named structured approach that may be used across multiple topics.",
    "lens": "Transferable way of thinking borrowed from a discipline, profession, philosophy, or strategic tradition.",
    "hack": "Smallest reusable practical action.",
    "protocol": "Executable sequence or personal experiment built from one or more hacks.",
    "legacy_life_area": "Compatibility navigation from the original Brali taxonomy. New records should use Domain.",
    "legacy_growth_zone": "Compatibility collection and stable URL from the original Brali taxonomy. It may map to a Topic, Method, or Lens."
  },
  "domains": [
    {
      "id": "focus-action",
      "title": "Focus & Action",
      "description": "Turn intentions into attention, decisions, plans, habits, and reliable follow-through."
    },
    {
      "id": "mind-resilience",
      "title": "Mind & Resilience",
      "description": "Work with stress, emotions, fear, mood, perspective, and psychological flexibility."
    },
    {
      "id": "health-energy",
      "title": "Health & Energy",
      "description": "Support sleep, movement, physical wellbeing, recovery, and everyday energy without turning general guidance into treatment."
    },
    {
      "id": "learning-thinking",
      "title": "Learning & Thinking",
      "description": "Build memory, skills, reasoning, problem-solving, data literacy, and metacognition."
    },
    {
      "id": "communication-relationships",
      "title": "Communication & Relationships",
      "description": "Listen, speak clearly, handle difficult conversations, repair conflict, and build stronger relationships."
    },
    {
      "id": "creativity-expression",
      "title": "Creativity & Expression",
      "description": "Generate, develop, communicate, and improve ideas through creative practice and writing."
    },
    {
      "id": "work-money",
      "title": "Work & Money",
      "description": "Improve work systems, career choices, personal finance, strategy, negotiation, and positioning."
    },
    {
      "id": "environment-digital",
      "title": "Environment & Digital Life",
      "description": "Shape digital attention, information flows, physical spaces, workspaces, and technology use so the environment supports rather than fights the user."
    }
  ],
  "topics": [
    {
      "id": "attention-focus",
      "domain_id": "focus-action",
      "title": "Attention & Focus",
      "description": "Protect attention, reduce unnecessary switching, and sustain useful focus.",
      "status": "growth-gap"
    },
    {
      "id": "task-initiation",
      "domain_id": "focus-action",
      "title": "Task Initiation",
      "description": "Reduce friction between intending to act and actually starting.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "planning-prioritization",
      "domain_id": "focus-action",
      "title": "Planning & Prioritization",
      "description": "Choose what matters, order work, and make the next action clear.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "goals",
      "domain_id": "focus-action",
      "title": "Goals",
      "description": "Define meaningful outcomes and connect them to controllable actions.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "habits-consistency",
      "domain_id": "focus-action",
      "title": "Habits & Consistency",
      "description": "Make useful behavior easier to repeat and review over time.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "decision-making",
      "domain_id": "focus-action",
      "title": "Decision Making",
      "description": "Structure choices under uncertainty and update decisions when evidence changes.",
      "status": "growth-gap"
    },
    {
      "id": "error-prevention",
      "domain_id": "focus-action",
      "title": "Error Prevention",
      "description": "Prevent avoidable mistakes with checks, constraints, and review points.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "stress-regulation",
      "domain_id": "mind-resilience",
      "title": "Stress Regulation",
      "description": "Use low-risk practices to respond to everyday stress and regain workable perspective.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "emotion-regulation",
      "domain_id": "mind-resilience",
      "title": "Emotion Regulation",
      "description": "Notice, understand, and respond to emotions without promising emotional control on demand.",
      "status": "growth-gap"
    },
    {
      "id": "fear-confidence",
      "domain_id": "mind-resilience",
      "title": "Fear & Confidence",
      "description": "Approach manageable challenges, understand fear responses, and build confidence gradually.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "worry-rumination",
      "domain_id": "mind-resilience",
      "title": "Worry & Rumination",
      "description": "Work with repetitive thinking and redirect attention toward useful action.",
      "status": "growth-gap"
    },
    {
      "id": "mood-wellbeing",
      "domain_id": "mind-resilience",
      "title": "Mood & Wellbeing",
      "description": "General wellbeing practices for mood and daily functioning, kept separate from diagnosis or treatment.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "psychological-flexibility",
      "domain_id": "mind-resilience",
      "title": "Psychological Flexibility",
      "description": "Stay connected to values and useful action while making room for difficult internal experiences.",
      "status": "growth-gap"
    },
    {
      "id": "self-awareness",
      "domain_id": "mind-resilience",
      "title": "Self-Awareness",
      "description": "Notice patterns in thoughts, behavior, needs, triggers, and context.",
      "status": "growth-gap"
    },
    {
      "id": "health-basics",
      "domain_id": "health-energy",
      "title": "Everyday Health Basics",
      "description": "General routines that support physical wellbeing without replacing professional care.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "sleep-circadian",
      "domain_id": "health-energy",
      "title": "Sleep & Circadian Rhythm",
      "description": "Sleep timing, regularity, environment, and daily rhythms.",
      "status": "growth-gap"
    },
    {
      "id": "movement",
      "domain_id": "health-energy",
      "title": "Movement",
      "description": "Reduce prolonged inactivity and add practical movement to daily life.",
      "status": "growth-gap"
    },
    {
      "id": "fitness-strength",
      "domain_id": "health-energy",
      "title": "Fitness & Strength",
      "description": "Exercise, conditioning, strength, mobility, and sustainable physical practice.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "recovery-energy",
      "domain_id": "health-energy",
      "title": "Recovery & Energy",
      "description": "Manage effort, breaks, recovery, and everyday energy without pseudoscientific optimization claims.",
      "status": "growth-gap"
    },
    {
      "id": "nutrition",
      "domain_id": "health-energy",
      "title": "Nutrition",
      "description": "General food and nutrition habits with clear safety and evidence boundaries.",
      "status": "growth-gap"
    },
    {
      "id": "cardiovascular-health",
      "domain_id": "health-energy",
      "title": "Cardiovascular Health",
      "description": "General educational material about cardiovascular-health habits, not diagnosis or treatment.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "memory",
      "domain_id": "learning-thinking",
      "title": "Memory",
      "description": "Encoding, retrieval, consolidation, forgetting, and remembering what matters.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "skill-learning",
      "domain_id": "learning-thinking",
      "title": "Skill Learning",
      "description": "Build capabilities through practice, feedback, transfer, and iteration.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "language-learning",
      "domain_id": "learning-thinking",
      "title": "Language Learning",
      "description": "Learn vocabulary, patterns, comprehension, production, and communicative skill.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "critical-thinking",
      "domain_id": "learning-thinking",
      "title": "Critical Thinking",
      "description": "Separate claims from evidence, compare explanations, and reason more carefully.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "problem-solving",
      "domain_id": "learning-thinking",
      "title": "Problem Solving",
      "description": "Frame problems, generate options, test hypotheses, and learn from results.",
      "status": "growth-gap"
    },
    {
      "id": "metacognition",
      "domain_id": "learning-thinking",
      "title": "Metacognition",
      "description": "Think about how you learn, reason, monitor confidence, and adjust strategy.",
      "status": "growth-gap"
    },
    {
      "id": "data-literacy",
      "domain_id": "learning-thinking",
      "title": "Data Literacy",
      "description": "Use data, measurement, uncertainty, and simple analysis to make better judgments.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "cognitive-biases",
      "domain_id": "learning-thinking",
      "title": "Cognitive Biases",
      "description": "Recognize predictable reasoning shortcuts and design checks against them.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "listening",
      "domain_id": "communication-relationships",
      "title": "Listening",
      "description": "Understand another person accurately before assuming agreement or disagreement.",
      "status": "growth-gap"
    },
    {
      "id": "clear-communication",
      "domain_id": "communication-relationships",
      "title": "Clear Communication",
      "description": "Make messages easier to understand, act on, and correct.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "difficult-conversations",
      "domain_id": "communication-relationships",
      "title": "Difficult Conversations",
      "description": "Prepare and handle high-friction conversations with clarity and boundaries.",
      "status": "growth-gap"
    },
    {
      "id": "conflict-repair",
      "domain_id": "communication-relationships",
      "title": "Conflict & Repair",
      "description": "Repair misunderstandings, resolve workable conflict, and restore cooperation where possible.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "relationships",
      "domain_id": "communication-relationships",
      "title": "Relationships",
      "description": "Build empathy, trust, reciprocity, boundaries, and shared routines.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "social-confidence",
      "domain_id": "communication-relationships",
      "title": "Social Confidence",
      "description": "Use practical communication scripts and gradual practice in social situations.",
      "status": "growth-gap"
    },
    {
      "id": "idea-generation",
      "domain_id": "creativity-expression",
      "title": "Idea Generation",
      "description": "Produce more varied ideas before narrowing or judging them.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "creative-problem-solving",
      "domain_id": "creativity-expression",
      "title": "Creative Problem Solving",
      "description": "Combine reframing, constraints, analogy, and experimentation to solve problems differently.",
      "status": "growth-gap"
    },
    {
      "id": "writing",
      "domain_id": "creativity-expression",
      "title": "Writing",
      "description": "Plan, draft, structure, and communicate in writing.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "revision-feedback",
      "domain_id": "creativity-expression",
      "title": "Revision & Feedback",
      "description": "Improve work through useful feedback, revision, and comparison against intent.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "work-systems",
      "domain_id": "work-money",
      "title": "Work Systems",
      "description": "Organize recurring work, handoffs, checklists, meetings, and execution loops.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "career",
      "domain_id": "work-money",
      "title": "Career",
      "description": "Build evidence of capability, choose development moves, and navigate career transitions.",
      "status": "growth-gap"
    },
    {
      "id": "personal-finance",
      "domain_id": "work-money",
      "title": "Personal Finance",
      "description": "General money habits, planning, and financial decision hygiene, not individualized financial advice.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "strategy",
      "domain_id": "work-money",
      "title": "Strategy",
      "description": "Choose where to play, what not to do, and how moves interact over time.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "negotiation",
      "domain_id": "work-money",
      "title": "Negotiation",
      "description": "Prepare interests, alternatives, trade-offs, and communication for negotiated decisions.",
      "status": "growth-gap"
    },
    {
      "id": "marketing-positioning",
      "domain_id": "work-money",
      "title": "Marketing & Positioning",
      "description": "Clarify audience, value, message, proof, and distribution without manipulative tactics.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "digital-attention",
      "domain_id": "environment-digital",
      "title": "Digital Attention",
      "description": "Reduce avoidable distraction from notifications, feeds, switching, and device defaults.",
      "status": "growth-gap"
    },
    {
      "id": "information-management",
      "domain_id": "environment-digital",
      "title": "Information Management",
      "description": "Capture, retrieve, summarize, and maintain useful information without building a second job around the system.",
      "status": "growth-gap"
    },
    {
      "id": "environment-design",
      "domain_id": "environment-digital",
      "title": "Environment Design",
      "description": "Shape physical spaces for privacy, comfort, accessibility, useful routines, and lower everyday friction beyond the workspace alone.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "workspace",
      "domain_id": "environment-digital",
      "title": "Workspace",
      "description": "Shape physical and digital work environments to reduce friction and errors.",
      "status": "growth-gap"
    },
    {
      "id": "digital-wellbeing",
      "domain_id": "environment-digital",
      "title": "Digital Wellbeing",
      "description": "Use technology deliberately while protecting sleep, attention, relationships, and recovery.",
      "status": "growth-gap"
    }
  ],
  "methods": [
    {
      "id": "implementation-intentions",
      "title": "Implementation Intentions",
      "description": "If-then planning that links a recognizable cue to a specific action.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "mcii-woop",
      "title": "MCII / WOOP",
      "description": "Mental contrasting with implementation intentions: desired future, obstacle, then an if-then plan.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "retrieval-practice",
      "title": "Retrieval Practice",
      "description": "Practice recalling information instead of relying only on re-exposure; transfer claims must be kept outcome-specific.",
      "status": "emerging"
    },
    {
      "id": "spaced-practice",
      "title": "Spaced Practice",
      "description": "Distribute learning opportunities across time rather than concentrating all exposure in one session.",
      "status": "emerging"
    },
    {
      "id": "interleaving",
      "title": "Interleaving",
      "description": "Mix related problem types or categories when doing so supports discrimination and transfer.",
      "status": "emerging"
    },
    {
      "id": "triz",
      "title": "TRIZ",
      "description": "Structured inventive problem-solving methods derived from patterns of technical innovation.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "game-theory",
      "title": "Game Theory",
      "description": "Model strategic choices where outcomes depend on the actions and incentives of multiple actors.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "cbt",
      "title": "CBT-derived",
      "description": "Techniques inspired by cognitive behavioral therapy. Sensitive content requires source review and must not be presented as individualized therapy.",
      "status": "sensitive"
    },
    {
      "id": "act",
      "title": "ACT-derived",
      "description": "Techniques inspired by Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Sensitive content requires source review and clear boundaries.",
      "status": "sensitive"
    },
    {
      "id": "dbt",
      "title": "DBT-derived",
      "description": "Techniques inspired by Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Sensitive content requires source review and clear boundaries.",
      "status": "sensitive"
    },
    {
      "id": "exposure",
      "title": "Exposure-derived",
      "description": "Graded exposure concepts for fears and avoidance. Clinical or severe cases require professional guidance; public protocols must be conservative.",
      "status": "sensitive"
    },
    {
      "id": "metacognitive-therapy",
      "title": "Metacognitive Therapy-derived",
      "description": "Techniques inspired by metacognitive therapy. Sensitive claims require direct evidence review.",
      "status": "sensitive"
    },
    {
      "id": "psychodynamic",
      "title": "Psychodynamic-derived",
      "description": "Reflection techniques inspired by psychodynamic traditions; avoid converting theory into unsupported causal claims.",
      "status": "sensitive"
    },
    {
      "id": "cognitive-analytic",
      "title": "Cognitive Analytic Therapy-derived",
      "description": "Pattern-mapping techniques inspired by cognitive analytic therapy; sensitive use requires careful review.",
      "status": "sensitive"
    },
    {
      "id": "positive-psychotherapy",
      "title": "Positive Psychotherapy-derived",
      "description": "Strength- and resource-oriented practices inspired by positive psychotherapy; claims require review.",
      "status": "sensitive"
    },
    {
      "id": "body-oriented",
      "title": "Body-oriented Therapy-derived",
      "description": "Body-awareness practices inspired by body-oriented therapy; avoid unsupported physiological or trauma-treatment claims.",
      "status": "sensitive"
    },
    {
      "id": "ericksonian",
      "title": "Ericksonian-derived",
      "description": "Communication and reframing ideas inspired by Ericksonian traditions; therapeutic claims require review.",
      "status": "sensitive"
    },
    {
      "id": "gestalt",
      "title": "Gestalt-derived",
      "description": "Awareness and experiential practices inspired by Gestalt therapy; sensitive use requires review.",
      "status": "sensitive"
    },
    {
      "id": "nlp",
      "title": "NLP (legacy)",
      "description": "Legacy Neuro-Linguistic Programming material retained for review. Do not imply scientific validation without direct high-quality evidence.",
      "status": "review-required"
    }
  ],
  "lenses": [
    {
      "id": "stoicism",
      "title": "Stoicism",
      "description": "Use distinctions such as controllable action versus uncertain outcome as a philosophical lens, not as empirical proof.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "antifragility",
      "title": "Antifragility",
      "description": "Look for optionality, bounded downside, learning from variability, and systems that can improve through manageable stressors.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "qa",
      "title": "Quality Assurance",
      "description": "Borrow test cases, checklists, acceptance criteria, regression thinking, and defect prevention for everyday processes.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "architecture",
      "title": "Architecture",
      "description": "Use boundaries, dependencies, interfaces, trade-offs, and system structure to reason about complex personal or work systems.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "detective",
      "title": "Detective",
      "description": "Separate observations from interpretations, build competing hypotheses, and look for disconfirming evidence.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "chef-operations",
      "title": "Chef / Operations",
      "description": "Borrow mise en place, sequencing, preparation, timing, and dependency management from kitchen operations.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "chess",
      "title": "Chess",
      "description": "Think in candidate moves, consequences, tempo, constraints, and opponent responses without pretending life is a board game.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "classical-strategy",
      "title": "Classical Strategy",
      "description": "Use historical stratagems as prompts for option generation and perspective, not as universal social manipulation rules.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "id": "insider-fieldcraft",
      "title": "Fieldcraft",
      "description": "Practical heuristics learned from how experienced practitioners prepare, notice signals, and reduce friction in a domain.",
      "status": "review-required"
    },
    {
      "id": "quantum-analogy",
      "title": "Quantum (legacy analogy)",
      "description": "Legacy conceptual material retained for historical compatibility. Quantum mechanics must not be used as scientific evidence for self-help or cognition claims.",
      "status": "legacy-only"
    },
    {
      "id": "ai-collaboration",
      "title": "AI Collaboration",
      "description": "Use AI as a bounded collaborator for drafting, exploration, transformation, critique, and checking while keeping verification, judgment, privacy, and target human skills explicit.",
      "status": "active"
    }
  ],
  "legacy_zone_map": {
    "be-positive": {
      "kind": "topic",
      "target_id": "mood-wellbeing"
    },
    "do-it": {
      "kind": "topic",
      "target_id": "task-initiation"
    },
    "skill-sprint": {
      "kind": "topic",
      "target_id": "skill-learning"
    },
    "be-healthy": {
      "kind": "topic",
      "target_id": "health-basics"
    },
    "phrases": {
      "kind": "topic",
      "target_id": "clear-communication"
    },
    "be-creative": {
      "kind": "topic",
      "target_id": "idea-generation"
    },
    "be-calm": {
      "kind": "topic",
      "target_id": "stress-regulation"
    },
    "no-depression": {
      "kind": "topic",
      "target_id": "mood-wellbeing"
    },
    "no-fears": {
      "kind": "topic",
      "target_id": "fear-confidence"
    },
    "stoicism": {
      "kind": "lens",
      "target_id": "stoicism"
    },
    "money": {
      "kind": "topic",
      "target_id": "personal-finance"
    },
    "antifragility": {
      "kind": "lens",
      "target_id": "antifragility"
    },
    "language": {
      "kind": "topic",
      "target_id": "language-learning"
    },
    "future-builder": {
      "kind": "topic",
      "target_id": "goals"
    },
    "talk-smart": {
      "kind": "topic",
      "target_id": "clear-communication"
    },
    "relationships": {
      "kind": "topic",
      "target_id": "relationships"
    },
    "avoid-errors": {
      "kind": "topic",
      "target_id": "error-prevention"
    },
    "fit-life": {
      "kind": "topic",
      "target_id": "fitness-strength"
    },
    "triz": {
      "kind": "method",
      "target_id": "triz"
    },
    "data": {
      "kind": "topic",
      "target_id": "data-literacy"
    },
    "as-qa": {
      "kind": "lens",
      "target_id": "qa"
    },
    "marketing": {
      "kind": "topic",
      "target_id": "marketing-positioning"
    },
    "cardio-doc": {
      "kind": "topic",
      "target_id": "cardiovascular-health"
    },
    "insider": {
      "kind": "lens",
      "target_id": "insider-fieldcraft"
    },
    "as-architector": {
      "kind": "lens",
      "target_id": "architecture"
    },
    "chef": {
      "kind": "lens",
      "target_id": "chef-operations"
    },
    "as-detective": {
      "kind": "lens",
      "target_id": "detective"
    },
    "quantum": {
      "kind": "lens",
      "target_id": "quantum-analogy"
    },
    "work": {
      "kind": "topic",
      "target_id": "work-systems"
    },
    "nlp": {
      "kind": "method",
      "target_id": "nlp"
    },
    "thinking": {
      "kind": "topic",
      "target_id": "critical-thinking"
    },
    "writing": {
      "kind": "topic",
      "target_id": "writing"
    },
    "grow-fast": {
      "kind": "topic",
      "target_id": "habits-consistency"
    },
    "grandmaster": {
      "kind": "lens",
      "target_id": "chess"
    },
    "game-theory": {
      "kind": "method",
      "target_id": "game-theory"
    },
    "psychodynamic": {
      "kind": "method",
      "target_id": "psychodynamic"
    },
    "metacognitive": {
      "kind": "method",
      "target_id": "metacognitive-therapy"
    },
    "cognitive-analytic": {
      "kind": "method",
      "target_id": "cognitive-analytic"
    },
    "positive-psychotherapy": {
      "kind": "method",
      "target_id": "positive-psychotherapy"
    },
    "body-oriented": {
      "kind": "method",
      "target_id": "body-oriented"
    },
    "ericksonian": {
      "kind": "method",
      "target_id": "ericksonian"
    },
    "gestalt": {
      "kind": "method",
      "target_id": "gestalt"
    },
    "exposure": {
      "kind": "method",
      "target_id": "exposure"
    },
    "dbt": {
      "kind": "method",
      "target_id": "dbt"
    },
    "act": {
      "kind": "method",
      "target_id": "act"
    },
    "cbt": {
      "kind": "method",
      "target_id": "cbt"
    },
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