Coaching practices for Calibrated Questions Before Bed

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• My real decisions take months to resolve and matter too much for me to score them honestly, so I never get clean reps
• Every night before bed looks completely different depending on my mood
• When I look back on my day it’s either all the ways I screwed up or a vague "it was fine"
• I start these tracking habits full of intention and then they fall apart within a week
• I’ve noticed that sometimes I go to bed stuck and wake up with the answer just sitting there

Practices that may help

1. Calibrated Questions, Made Practical
   Calibrated questions are open "How" and "What" questions that hand the other party a problem to solve, letting you steer a negotiation or difficult conversation without commands or ultimatums. The technique comes from Chris Voss’s FBI hostage-negotiation work; its mechanism is grounded in autonomy psychology, though the specific scripts are practitioner craft rather than a lab-validated protocol.
2. 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
3. Anchor the wind-down with a consistent starting cue
   A repeated pre-sleep ritual — a specific tea, a book, a certain playlist — becomes a conditioned cue that induces sleepiness over time.
   The Wind-Down Routine: Engineering Your Path to Sleep
4. 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.
5. The three-question evening review
   Ask three questions before sleep: What did I do wrong? What did I succeed at? What could I have done better?
   The Pythagorean Evening Review
6. The daily scoring ritual
   Score each question at the same time each day — consistency matters more than perfect accuracy.
   The Morning Questions
7. Load a hard problem before sleep
   Review the problem just before bed so overnight consolidation can work on it.
   Focused vs Diffuse Thinking
8. 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
9. Keep screens out of the bedroom
   Reserve the bed for sleep so the space itself cues winding down.
   The Digital Sunset
10. Set a screen cutoff time
    Pick a consistent hour to put screens away and protect the wind-down window.
    The Digital Sunset

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