Coaching practices for Examen Resolve Step
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- I’ve got the textbook down but I freeze the moment a real exam-style question asks me to actually apply it
- I reflect on my day and feel all these feelings about it, and then tomorrow plays out exactly the same
- I do these honest reviews of my day and then nothing actually changes tomorrow
- By the time night comes my whole day has blurred into one undifferentiated "fine" or "rough," and I couldn’t actually tell you what happened in it
- I read through the solved examples and they all make perfect sense as I go, but then I hit my own problem and realize I can’t actually do any of it
Practices that may help
- Solve practice questions before checking the answer
Work through exam-style questions on material you just studied — and attempt every question before checking.
Active Recall: The Most Effective Way to Study - Close with a resolve for tomorrow
End by choosing one concrete intention to carry into the next day.
The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day - The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day
The Examen is a short, structured evening review from the Ignatian tradition: you replay the day with gratitude and honest attention to where you felt drawn toward or away from your values, then carry one resolve into tomorrow. It is a centuries-old contemplative practice; its benefits are best described as mechanistically plausible and widely reported rather than established by controlled trials. - Close with a forward-looking resolve
Choose one concrete intention to carry into tomorrow before closing the review.
The Ignatian Examen: Five Movements of Daily Review - The Ignatian Examen: Five Movements of Daily Review
The Ignatian Examen is a five-step daily prayer and reflection practice developed by St. Ignatius of Loyola: give thanks, ask for clarity, review the day, face what fell short, and resolve what comes next. As a structured reflection method it is centuries-old and widely practiced; its benefits are supported by the broader research on gratitude, emotional review, and implementation intentions, not by trials of the Examen itself. - Replay the day with honest attention
Walk back through the day’s events and notice them without rushing to judge.
The Daily Examen: Reviewing the Day - Self-explain each step as you work through an example
Pause after each step in a worked example and explain to yourself, in your own words, why that step was taken.
The Worked Examples Effect: Learn Faster by Studying Solutions First - Audit which constraints are real and which are assumed
List every constraint you’re working under, then test each one for whether it is actually fixed.
Problem Reframing: Solving the Right Problem First - Climb the why–why ladder
Ask "why is this a problem?" repeatedly to reveal the higher-level goal your current framing may be missing.
Problem Reframing: Solving the Right Problem First - Build branches that are MECE at every level
Ensure each set of branches is mutually exclusive (no overlap) and collectively exhaustive (nothing important missing).
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Related concerns
- Daily Examen
The Examen is a short, structured evening review from the Ignatian tradition: you replay the day with gratitude and honest attention to where you felt drawn toward or away from your values, then carry one resolve into tomorrow. It is a centuries-old contemplative practice; its benefits are best described as mechanistically plausible and widely reported rather than established by controlled trials.
- Examen Review Step
After the session, cover your notes and write a question in the cue column for each main idea.
Reduce: convert main notes to questions in the cue column
- Brief Evening Reflection
End by choosing one concrete intention to carry into the next day.
Close with a resolve for tomorrow
- Daily Examen Habit
The Examen is a short, structured evening review from the Ignatian tradition: you replay the day with gratitude and honest attention to where you felt drawn toward or away from your values, then carry one resolve into tomorrow. It is a centuries-old contemplative practice; its benefits are best described as mechanistically plausible and widely reported rather than established by controlled trials.
- Daily Examen Practice
The Examen is a short, structured evening review from the Ignatian tradition: you replay the day with gratitude and honest attention to where you felt drawn toward or away from your values, then carry one resolve into tomorrow. It is a centuries-old contemplative practice; its benefits are best described as mechanistically plausible and widely reported rather than established by controlled trials.
- Evening Reflection Practice
End by choosing one concrete intention to carry into the next day.
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