Coaching practices for Calibrated External Feedback Career

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• I make calls about how things will go all the time, but I never write them down or check them after
• My real decisions take months to resolve and matter too much for me to score them honestly, so I never get clean reps
• Looking at my own numbers has started to feel like getting audited
• I’m tracking but “better” keeps meaning whatever I happened to do that day
• I walk into every test sure I’ll do well and walk out shocked by the score

Practices that may help

1. Score your own past predictions to calibrate your outside-view use
   Keep a forecast log and score it — you cannot improve calibration without feedback on where you were over- or under-confident.
   The Outside View
2. Calibration Training
   Calibration training teaches you to match your stated confidence levels to your actual accuracy: if you say "70% confident," roughly 70% of those claims should turn out to be correct. Tetlock’s forecasting research and probability training studies show calibration is trainable with practice and feedback — the evidence here is specific and replicable.
3. Build calibration reps with low-stakes trivia and almanac questions
   Use factual trivia questions as a practice ground for calibration — outcomes resolve immediately and the stakes are zero.
   Calibration Training
4. Calibration practice
   Predict your performance before each retrieval test, then compare prediction to outcome.
   Self-Regulated Learning: Taking Control of How You Learn
5. Create a feedback acknowledgment ritual to close each tracking cycle
   A brief, consistent closing ritual after reviewing behavioral data anchors the feedback loop and prevents it from becoming pure surveillance.
   Feedback Loops and Behavior Change
6. Maintain a clear, stable reference point for what good performance looks like
   A feedback loop requires a target — without a stable reference point, data is just noise.
   Feedback Loops and Behavior Change
7. Feedback Loops and Behavior Change
   Feedback loops are the mechanism by which information about the gap between current and desired performance reaches the actor and drives adjustment. Cybernetics established the theoretical foundation; decades of applied research confirm that self-monitoring and feedback are among the most robust behavior-change techniques — particularly for health behaviors. The key design questions are feedback frequency, the right metric, and the gap between signal and response.
8. Confidence-accuracy gap tracking
   After each test, compute and record the gap between your predicted and actual scores.
   Feeling of Knowing: Why Your Confidence Misleads You
9. Seek developmental feedback, not just performance feedback
   Ask for feedback that challenges your assumptions about how you see, not just how you perform.
   Kegan’s Subject-Object Theory, Made Practical
10. Structured reflection on performance
    Systematically compare your performance to an expert model to build accurate self-assessment.
    Cognitive Apprenticeship: Learning by Making Thinking Visible

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