Coaching practices for Expert Blind Spot Check

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

• I can spot everyone else’s blind spots instantly
• Whenever I ask people how I’m doing I just get vague, polite reassurance
• People who know me keep pointing at some pattern in me that I genuinely can’t see in myself
• I keep getting blindsided by the same kind of situation
• I know in the abstract that I have blind spots, but I couldn’t name a single one

Practices that may help

1. Question your own objectivity explicitly
   Ask yourself what forces might be shaping your perception before assuming you see things clearly.
   Naive Realism: Why Everyone Thinks They See Things as They Are
2. Actively seek feedback on your blind spots
   Ask specifically for what others see that you might not — with enough specificity to get honest answers.
   The Johari Window
3. The Enneagram blind-spot inquiry
   Use your type’s characteristic blind spot as a daily question: "How might I be doing this without knowing it?"
   The Enneagram
4. Conduct premortems on your past recognition failures
   Review cases where pattern recognition led you wrong to find the shared structural feature that fools you.
   Recognition-Primed Decision Making
5. Map your Johari Window with a trusted person
   Identify what is open, hidden, and blind in a specific relationship or role.
   The Johari Window
6. Use a challenge-calibration partner or coach
   Have a more skilled observer set the challenge level — your own assessment is biased.
   Growth-Edge Training: Practicing at the Edge of Your Ability
7. Fresh-eyes inquiry: "What if I knew nothing about this?"
   Before engaging a familiar situation, ask what you would notice if you were seeing it for the first time.
   Beginner's Mind (Shoshin), Made Practical
8. Contrast training
   Study pairs of similar examples that differ on exactly one critical feature to sharpen discrimination.
   Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind
9. Expert-comparison study
   Watch or listen to an expert perform and articulate what they are attending to that you are not.
   Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind
10. Transfer testing with novel instances
    Periodically test your perceptual skill on examples you have never seen to verify genuine learning.
    Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind

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