Coaching practices for Calibration Training After a Loss

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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
  • There’s one area I consider myself an expert in, and that’s exactly where I’m most stubbornly sure and most often wrong
  • I want to actually know whether my gut is any good — when I feel sure about something, am I right that often, or am I just confident?
  • I make calls all the time but I never write them down or check them later, so my confidence is just a feeling that floats free

Practices that may help

  1. 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.
  2. 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
  3. Calibration practice
    Predict your performance before each retrieval test, then compare prediction to outcome.
    Self-Regulated Learning: Taking Control of How You Learn
  4. 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
  5. Identify the specific domains where you are most overconfident
    Calibration is domain-specific — find where your confidence most exceeds your accuracy.
    Calibration Training
  6. Practice probability calibration
    Regularly make probabilistic predictions and track your accuracy across many of them.
    Hindsight Bias: Why Everything Seems Obvious in Retrospect
  7. Maintain a scored prediction log
    Record predictions with explicit probabilities and score them when they resolve.
    Calibration Training
  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. Practice probabilistic calibration by tracking your predictions
    Assign explicit probability estimates to your predictions and track whether they come true at the right rate.
    Base-Rate Neglect: Why We Ignore the Odds
  10. Run a volume-reduction deload: cut sets by 40–60%, keep intensity
    Reduce training sets by roughly half while maintaining the same load and rep ranges — this dissipates fatigue without losing neural drive.
    Deload Week

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