Coaching practices for Deliberate Practice Judgment

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I’ve made hundreds of these judgment calls over the years and yet my gut feels no sharper than when I started
• I sit down to practice for an hour but I’m half on my phone the whole time
• When I practice I’m just kind of doing it again and hoping it’s better, because I don’t actually have a clear picture in my head of what great is supposed to look like
• I just made a hard call under real uncertainty and I keep wondering whether someone with genuinely good judgment would have handled it differently
• 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

Practices that may help

1. Deliberate Practice, Not Just Practice
   Deliberate practice, studied by Anders Ericsson, is focused, effortful practice aimed just beyond your current ability, with immediate feedback and constant correction. It is what separates people who keep improving from people who simply log hours — and it is why the popular "10,000 hours" rule is an oversimplification of his work.
2. Build wisdom through case-based reflection
   After a consequential decision, reconstruct what you perceived, what you valued, and what you’d change.
   Phronesis: Aristotle’s Practical Wisdom
3. Practice with full, undivided focus
   Short blocks of complete concentration beat long blocks of distracted repetition.
   Deliberate Practice, Not Just Practice
4. Build sharper mental representations
   Develop a detailed internal model of what excellent performance looks like.
   Deliberate Practice, Not Just Practice
5. Developing phronesis: practical wisdom through reflection
   After a significant decision, reflect on what a practically wise person would have done — and update your judgment for next time.
   Aristotelian Eudaimonia: Flourishing Through Virtue
6. 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
7. Replace judgment with non-judgmental awareness
   Observe what is actually happening with curious interest rather than approval or disapproval.
   The Inner Game: Quieting Self 1
8. Restudy decision protocol
   Use a defined decision rule — not a feeling — to determine which items get additional study.
   Judgments of Learning: Why You Misjudge What You’ve Learned
9. Stop judging learning by today’s performance
   How well you do during practice is a bad predictor of how much you will keep.
   Desirable Difficulties: When Harder Means Better Learning
10. 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

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