Decision Journaling Nicolas Cole: 10 Evidence-Based Coaching Practices
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Practices that may help
- Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
A decision journal is a written record of significant decisions — what you decided, why, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened. It counteracts hindsight bias and outcome bias by preserving your actual reasoning before the outcome arrives, and it creates the only feedback loop that produces real calibration: comparing your predictions to results across many decisions over time. - Run a weekly decision review session
Set aside 20 minutes each week to score past decisions and extract one lesson.
Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time - Use the journal to externalize decisions you are stuck on
Write out both sides of a decision in full — on paper, the reasoning becomes visible and the stuckness often resolves.
Journaling for Clarity - Track your calibration across many predictions
Score your confidence levels against outcomes over dozens of predictions to find your systematic biases.
Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time - The distanced daily debrief
End each day with a five-minute third-person review rather than a first-person emotional download.
Self-Distancing Journaling - Classify decisions by reversibility and stakes
Sort decisions into low-stakes/high-stakes and reversible/irreversible before deciding.
Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time - Log the information you wished you had
In every decision entry, write: what would I want to know that I don’t?
Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time - Disagree and commit on two-way doors
Voice your disagreement fully, then commit to the group decision and give it a genuine try.
The Two-Way Door - Log the decision before the outcome
Write what you decided, why, and what you expect — before you know how it turns out.
Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time - Score decision quality separately from outcome quality
Judge the process you used — not whether it worked — when you review a past decision.
Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I started writing my decisions down but I never actually go back to close the loop
- I’ve been ping-ponging between two options in my head for weeks
- I keep being so sure I’m right and then being wrong, and I have no way to see whether my confidence actually means anything
- My nightly journaling has quietly become a place where I just dump everything that went wrong and replay it, and instead of feeling lighter I lie there more wound up
- I agonize for days over tiny choices I could undo in a second, then rush the big ones I can’t take back
Related concerns
- Decision Journal
A decision journal is a written record of significant decisions — what you decided, why, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened. It counteracts hindsight bias and outcome bias by preserving your actual reasoning before the outcome arrives, and it creates the only feedback loop that produces real calibration: comparing your predictions to results across many decisions over time.
- Decision Journaling During A Big Change
A decision journal is a written record of significant decisions — what you decided, why, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened. It counteracts hindsight bias and outcome bias by preserving your actual reasoning before the outcome arrives, and it creates the only feedback loop that produces real calibration: comparing your predictions to results across many decisions over time.
- Decision Journaling Learning To Decide Better Over Time During Conflict
A decision journal is a written record of significant decisions — what you decided, why, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened. It counteracts hindsight bias and outcome bias by preserving your actual reasoning before the outcome arrives, and it creates the only feedback loop that produces real calibration: comparing your predictions to results across many decisions over time.
- Decision Journaling
A decision journal is a written record of significant decisions — what you decided, why, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened. It counteracts hindsight bias and outcome bias by preserving your actual reasoning before the outcome arrives, and it creates the only feedback loop that produces real calibration: comparing your predictions to results across many decisions over time.
- Decision Journaling Dickie Bush
A decision journal is a written record of significant decisions — what you decided, why, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened. It counteracts hindsight bias and outcome bias by preserving your actual reasoning before the outcome arrives, and it creates the only feedback loop that produces real calibration: comparing your predictions to results across many decisions over time.
- Decision Journaling Improves Decision Quality Evidence
A decision journal is a written record of significant decisions — what you decided, why, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened. It counteracts hindsight bias and outcome bias by preserving your actual reasoning before the outcome arrives, and it creates the only feedback loop that produces real calibration: comparing your predictions to results across many decisions over time.
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