A quick personal or group audit to determine whether something — a plan, a relationship, an idea, a conversation — should even be entertained or if it's dead on arrival before it begins. Running a nonstarter check means asking honestly: does this have any real legs, or am I/are we about to waste time on something that was never viable? It's the mental filter applied before investing energy, the pre-screening that separates 'let's explore this' from 'this isn't worth the meeting.' A nonstarter check can save hours of polite investment in things that were always going nowhere.
Before we spend two hours planning, run a nonstarter check — does he even want to be in this situation?
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