Coaching practices for Decision Quality Review
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- I beat myself up over a call that went badly even though it was reasonable with what I knew, and I pat myself on the back for a reckless one that happened to work
- I started writing my decisions down but I never actually go back to close the loop
- I can never feel done deciding
- I treat picking a restaurant with the same dread as picking a career, and I genuinely can’t feel the difference between a choice I could undo tomorrow and one I’d be stuck with for years.
- I agonize over which coffee to order with the same intensity I bring to the decisions that genuinely matter, and I can’t tell which ones deserve that effort
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. - 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 - 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 - Adopt satisficing instead of maximizing
Set a "good enough" threshold before you search, then stop when you hit it.
Choice Overload, Made Practical - Classify every decision as one-way or two-way before starting
Before applying any decision process, ask: can I reverse this if I am wrong?
The Two-Way Door - Recognize which decisions to defer or delegate
Not every choice deserves your cognitive best — identify which ones merit serious deliberation.
Choice Overload, Made Practical - Use the 10-year view to check values alignment
Ask: is the 10-year version of this choice consistent with what I actually care about?
The 10-10-10 Rule - Commit and stop re-evaluating
Once you’ve chosen, close the door instead of reopening the comparison.
Satisficing vs. Maximizing: When “Good Enough” Wins - Reduce opportunity-cost thinking
Stop calculating what every rejected option "costs" you — it amplifies regret for no gain.
Choice Overload, Made Practical - Separate the quality of the decision from the outcome
A good decision can produce a bad outcome, and a bad decision can produce a good outcome — do not confuse them.
Thinking in Bets
Related concerns
- How To Evaluate Decisions
Judge the process you used — not whether it worked — when you review a past decision.
Score decision quality separately from outcome quality
- How To Make Better Decisions
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 Quality Vs Outcome
A good decision can produce a bad outcome, and a bad decision can produce a good outcome — do not confuse them.
Separate the quality of the decision from the outcome
- How To Improve Decision Quality
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.
- What Am I Missing In Decisions
In every decision entry, write: what would I want to know that I don’t?
Log the information you wished you had
- Annie Duke Decision Making
Annie Duke's thinking in bets framework treats decisions as bets with uncertain outcomes, separating the quality of the decision from the quality of the outcome. Most real decisions involve incomplete information, so good decision-making is about process and probability, not about being right every time. The core skill is evaluating decisions on the information available at the time, not on how they turned out.
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