Coaching practices for Gick Holyoak Analogy

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

• When someone’s clearly not following, I just keep restating the same idea in more technical detail
• Someone keeps winning the argument with a comparison that sounds so persuasive I can’t counter it in the moment
• I’ve locked onto one way of seeing this problem
• I keep doing just enough to clear the bar and then coasting, and it’s quietly become who I think I am
• I keep telling myself this new situation is "just like" something I’ve handled before because they look so alike on the surface, but my plan based on that comparison keeps falling flat

Practices that may help

1. Build a bridging analogy from what they know to what they don’t
   Map the new concept onto a structure the audience already understands.
   The Curse of Knowledge: Why Experts Struggle to Teach
2. Check for false analogies: does the structural mapping actually hold?
   Test whether a compelling analogy survives scrutiny of its relational structure.
   Analogical Reasoning
3. Use multiple analogies for the same problem
   Draw on at least two different analogies for a new problem and see where they agree and diverge.
   Analogical Reasoning
4. Outperform expectations in every context
   Becoming the person who consistently delivers beyond what’s expected is a discipline practice, not just a performance tactic.
   The Accountability Mirror: David Goggins’s Radical Honesty Practice
5. Map the relational structure, not the surface features
   Ask what relationships are shared between domains, not just what objects look similar.
   Analogical Reasoning
6. The Accountability Mirror: David Goggins’s Radical Honesty Practice
   The accountability mirror is Goggins’s practice of standing in front of a mirror and speaking with complete honesty about the gap between who you are and who you claim to be — no excuses, no filters. It’s a form of radical self-confrontation designed to strip away comfortable self-narratives. This is practitioner wisdom grounded in personal experience, not clinical research; the underlying mechanisms (self-confrontation, honest feedback) have some psychological support, but the intensity of the practice is Goggins’s own.
7. Compare two examples side-by-side to extract the underlying principle
   Place two worked examples next to each other and find exactly what is the same, structurally, beneath the surface differences.
   The Worked Examples Effect: Learn Faster by Studying Solutions First
8. Use analogies to transfer structure from known to unknown
   Map an unfamiliar concept onto a familiar one that shares the same relational structure.
   Concrete Examples: How to Make Abstract Ideas Stick
9. Callus your mind through voluntary hard things
   Deliberately doing difficult things — beyond your current comfort — builds the mental callus that hard moments require.
   The Accountability Mirror: David Goggins’s Radical Honesty Practice
10. Regulate the oscillation consciously
    If you are spending too long in one orientation, deliberately shift to the other.
    The Dual Process Model of Grief, Made Practical

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