Coaching practices for Expert Blind Spot Teaching

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

• I keep trying to imagine how this lands for a total beginner, but I can’t actually un-know what I know
• I watch someone who’s genuinely good at this glance at the same thing I’m staring at and instantly catch something I can’t see at all
• When I look at an example, my eye gets grabbed by the obvious surface stuff
• I can spot everyone else’s blind spots instantly
• I taught it once, felt the rush of finally getting it, and stopped there

Practices that may help

1. Find a genuine novice to test your explanation on
   Before the real audience, explain to someone who actually doesn’t know.
   The Curse of Knowledge: Why Experts Struggle to Teach
2. 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
3. Attentional cueing for critical features
   Direct attention explicitly to the features that define a category during early learning.
   Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind
4. 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
5. Use what you couldn’t teach as your study list
   The moments you fumbled while teaching are exactly what to go back and learn.
   The Protege Effect: Learn It Better by Teaching It
6. Teach cases to solidify and test your own patterns
   Explaining your recognition logic to others forces the implicit to become explicit and exposes gaps.
   Recognition-Primed Decision Making
7. 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
8. 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
9. Assess expertise level before deciding how much guidance to provide
   The same support that accelerates novices can slow down intermediates — measure first, design second.
   The Expertise Reversal Effect: When Help Becomes Harmful
10. 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

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