Coaching practices for Debiasing Self Assessment

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• When I take stock of my life I catch myself rounding everything up
• I’ve got a big evaluation looming and I can already feel myself bracing to defend my whole worth on it
• I’ve been logging faithfully for a while but I’m starting to doubt the numbers
• I genuinely can’t tell anymore where I’m actually good and where I just feel good
• Left to my own judgment I either think I’m better than I am or get scared off the very things that would help most

Practices that may help

1. Rate each life domain with brutal honesty, not aspiration
   The wheel’s value is proportional to the honesty of your ratings — aspirational scores produce a pleasant picture that changes nothing.
   The Wheel of Life, Made Practical
2. Write about a value that matters to you
   Before a stressful or threatening situation, spend five minutes writing about a value that is genuinely important to you.
   Self-Affirmation Theory, Made Practical
3. Periodically compare self-ratings with objective data
   People systematically miscalibrate self-monitoring — periodic objective checks correct the drift.
   Self-Monitoring, Made Practical
4. Map your actual competence across domains
   Explicitly rate your ability in each domain, then check the rating against external evidence.
   The Dunning-Kruger Effect, Understood Clearly
5. Use a challenge-calibration partner or coach
   Have a more skilled observer set the challenge level — your own assessment is biased.
   Growth-Edge Training: Practicing at the Edge of Your Ability
6. Ask what the person already knows before offering your assessment
   Ask the person to evaluate their own performance before giving yours.
   The Feedback Sandwich: Why It Doesn’t Work and What to Do Instead
7. Separate the act from the self
   Rate your behaviors and outcomes — never your whole self — so one failure cannot indict your entire worth.
   Unconditional Self-Acceptance
8. Use value-based self-affirmation before threatening evaluations
   Before a threatening evaluation, write for 10 minutes about a value that matters to you — unrelated to the domain being evaluated.
   Power Posing Revisited
9. Rate your current position in each domain
   Mark on each domain’s bullseye how closely your recent behavior has matched the value — honestly.
   Values Bullseye, Made Practical
10. Ask for clarity and honest perception
    Before reviewing, pause to ask for the capacity to see honestly rather than defensively.
    The Ignatian Examen: Five Movements of Daily Review

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