Coaching practices for Blind Spots Heuristic

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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
• I keep getting blindsided by the same kind of situation
• I’ve weighed all the options and risks I could think of, but I have this nagging worry that the thing that actually trips me up will be something that never even crossed my mind
• The second I stumble over a word or trip on a step, my whole body floods with the certainty that the entire room clocked it and is still thinking about it
• 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

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. 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
3. Actively search for what you are not thinking about
   The risks and options you cannot easily recall are at least as real as the ones you can.
   The Availability Heuristic: Why Memorable Feels Probable
4. 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
5. 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
6. Use "take the best": choose on your single most informative cue
   When choosing between options, identify the most diagnostic cue and use it — stop searching for more.
   Simple Heuristics: Gerd Gigerenzer’s Case for Fast and Frugal Thinking
7. 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
8. 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
9. Trust the recognition heuristic in uncertain environments
   If you recognize one option and not the other, the recognized one is usually better — in the right domain.
   Simple Heuristics: Gerd Gigerenzer’s Case for Fast and Frugal Thinking
10. Look for what your map omits
    Every model leaves something out — deliberately search for your blind spots.
    The Map Is Not the Territory

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