Coaching practices for Bias Blind Spot

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I can spot everyone else’s blind spots instantly
• People who know me keep pointing at some pattern in me that I genuinely can’t see in myself
• Whenever I ask people how I’m doing I just get vague, polite reassurance
• The areas where I feel most sure and think "oh this is obvious, I’ve got this" are turning out to be exactly where I get blindsided
• I keep getting surprised by factors I just didn’t have on my radar

Practices that may help

1. Question your own objectivity explicitly
   Ask yourself what forces might be shaping your perception before assuming you see things clearly.
   Naive Realism: Why Everyone Thinks They See Things as They Are
2. The Enneagram blind-spot inquiry
   Use your type’s characteristic blind spot as a daily question: "How might I be doing this without knowing it?"
   The Enneagram
3. Actively seek feedback on your blind spots
   Ask specifically for what others see that you might not — with enough specificity to get honest answers.
   The Johari Window
4. Watch for the signatures of overconfidence
   Treat "this is obvious" and "I’ve got this" as warning signs, not green lights.
   Metacognition: Knowing What You Actually Know
5. Look for what your map omits
   Every model leaves something out — deliberately search for your blind spots.
   The Map Is Not the Territory
6. Map your Johari Window with a trusted person
   Identify what is open, hidden, and blind in a specific relationship or role.
   The Johari Window
7. Conduct premortems on your past recognition failures
   Review cases where pattern recognition led you wrong to find the shared structural feature that fools you.
   Recognition-Primed Decision Making
8. Practise opportunity awareness: stay open to unplanned paths
   Fixed goals create attentional blindness to lateral opportunities that might be better than the original destination.
   Goal-Free Living: When Process Beats Destination
9. Fresh-eyes inquiry: "What if I knew nothing about this?"
   Before engaging a familiar situation, ask what you would notice if you were seeing it for the first time.
   Beginner's Mind (Shoshin), Made Practical
10. Actively update your estimate of how much others notice
    When you assume everyone saw your blunder, consciously cut the estimate in half.
    The Spotlight Effect: Why You Think Everyone Is Watching

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