Coaching practices for Domain Overconfidence

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

• The stuff I’m most certain I’ve nailed is exactly what blindsides me on the test
• I feel completely sure about this decision, which is honestly starting to make me nervous
• There’s one area I consider myself an expert in, and that’s exactly where I’m most stubbornly sure and most often wrong
• The areas where I feel most sure and think "oh this is obvious, I’ve got this" are turning out to be exactly where I get blindsided
• Everyone tells me to "just believe in myself more," but I’m not sure pumping up my confidence is even the right fix

Practices that may help

1. Regression-to-mean awareness in JOLs
   Discount your highest-confidence JOLs most — they are the most likely to be inflated.
   Judgments of Learning: Why You Misjudge What You’ve Learned
2. Ask 'What am I missing?' before major decisions
   Treat a confident feeling before a high-stakes decision as a cue to check what your competence map is omitting.
   Circle of Competence
3. Identify the specific domains where you are most overconfident
   Calibration is domain-specific — find where your confidence most exceeds your accuracy.
   Calibration Training
4. Watch for the signatures of overconfidence
   Treat "this is obvious" and "I’ve got this" as warning signs, not green lights.
   Metacognition: Knowing What You Actually Know
5. Pair confidence work with honest, accurate appraisal of your actual standing
   Confidence without accurate self-assessment is overconfidence — the goal is calibrated self-belief, not boosted belief.
   Power Posing Revisited
6. Check whether you’re demanding an unfair ambiguity premium
   Estimate what you’d accept under comparable known-odds risk — if your bar is much higher for unknown odds, that gap is the bias.
   Ambiguity Aversion — Why Unknown Odds Feel Worse Than Bad Odds
7. Slow down on one-way doors
   For irreversible decisions, invest in deliberation proportional to the downside — not to your confidence.
   The Two-Way Door
8. Be transparent about your competence limits
   Name what you can do, what you can’t, and what you’ll need to learn — before you are found out.
   The Trust Triangle
9. Estimate in ranges, not point estimates
   Instead of "my estimate is 500," say "I think it is between 200 and 2000."
   Fermi Estimation
10. 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

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