Coaching practices for Annie Duke Decision Making

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• I agonize for days over tiny choices I could undo in a second, then rush the big ones I can’t take back
• There’s a big, hard-to-undo choice in front of me
• I’m agonizing over this choice like it’s carved in stone and I can never come back from it, paralyzed by a downside that has me frozen
• I beat myself up over a call that went badly even though it was reasonable with what I knew, and I pat myself on the back for a reckless one that happened to work
• I tend to decide on my own and then use the meeting just to announce it

Practices that may help

1. Thinking in Bets
   Annie Duke's thinking in bets framework treats decisions as bets with uncertain outcomes, separating the quality of the decision from the quality of the outcome. Most real decisions involve incomplete information, so good decision-making is about process and probability, not about being right every time. The core skill is evaluating decisions on the information available at the time, not on how they turned out.
2. Classify decisions by reversibility and stakes
   Sort decisions into low-stakes/high-stakes and reversible/irreversible before deciding.
   Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
3. Stay inside for high-stakes, irreversible decisions
   Reserve your autonomous judgment for decisions within your circle; get help for the rest.
   Circle of Competence
4. Check reversibility before you fear the downside
   Most decisions are reversible; reserve maximum caution for the few that aren’t.
   The Regret-Minimization Framework
5. Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
   A decision journal is a written record of significant decisions — what you decided, why, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened. It counteracts hindsight bias and outcome bias by preserving your actual reasoning before the outcome arrives, and it creates the only feedback loop that produces real calibration: comparing your predictions to results across many decisions over time.
6. Score decision quality separately from outcome quality
   Judge the process you used — not whether it worked — when you review a past decision.
   Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
7. Make decisions through debate, not declaration
   Multipliers use real debate to engage the team’s best thinking before deciding; Diminishers use meetings to announce.
   Multipliers: How Leaders Amplify the Intelligence Around Them
8. Recognize which decisions to defer or delegate
   Not every choice deserves your cognitive best — identify which ones merit serious deliberation.
   Choice Overload, Made Practical
9. Resolving a decision with two competing values
   When two values both apply, use your ranked priority to resolve the tension rather than freeze.
   Values Card Sort
10. Use the 10-year view to check values alignment
    Ask: is the 10-year version of this choice consistent with what I actually care about?
    The 10-10-10 Rule

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