Coaching practices for How to Develop Good Judgment Fast
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- There’s someone whose judgment I deeply admire, and I keep asking them "what would you do?" and just copying their answer
- I’ve made hundreds of these judgment calls over the years and yet my gut feels no sharper than when I started
- Given enough time I can reason my way to the right call, slowly working it out
- I just made a hard call under real uncertainty and I keep wondering whether someone with genuinely good judgment would have handled it differently
- I jump on problems fast and feel decisive, then realize I’d charged in solving the wrong thing entirely
Practices that may help
- Learn from a phronimos (a practically wise person)
Identify someone whose judgment you respect, and study how they read situations — not just what they decide.
Phronesis: Aristotle’s Practical Wisdom - Build wisdom through case-based reflection
After a consequential decision, reconstruct what you perceived, what you valued, and what you’d change.
Phronesis: Aristotle’s Practical Wisdom - Rapid classification trials
Make classification judgments quickly and get immediate feedback to accelerate discrimination learning.
Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind - Developing phronesis: practical wisdom through reflection
After a significant decision, reflect on what a practically wise person would have done — and update your judgment for next time.
Aristotelian Eudaimonia: Flourishing Through Virtue - Train situational perception
Before deciding, spend sixty seconds naming what kind of situation this actually is.
Phronesis: Aristotle’s Practical Wisdom - Score decision quality separately from outcome quality
Judge the process you used — not whether it worked — when you review a past decision.
Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time - Build calibration reps with low-stakes trivia and almanac questions
Use factual trivia questions as a practice ground for calibration — outcomes resolve immediately and the stakes are zero.
Calibration Training - Judgments of Learning: Why You Misjudge What You’ve Learned
Judgments of learning (JOLs) are in-the-moment predictions about how well information will be remembered later. Thomas Nelson’s research showed JOLs are often inaccurate — biased upward by current processing fluency — causing learners to declare items "learned" prematurely and under-study material they will later forget. Delayed JOLs and retrieval-based checks produce more accurate predictions and better study-time allocation. - 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 - Stay inside for high-stakes, irreversible decisions
Reserve your autonomous judgment for decisions within your circle; get help for the rest.
Circle of Competence
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- Good Judgment Project
After a consequential decision, reconstruct what you perceived, what you valued, and what you’d change.
Build wisdom through case-based reflection
- How To Develop Good Judgment
After a consequential decision, reconstruct what you perceived, what you valued, and what you’d change.
- How To Develop Judgment
After a consequential decision, reconstruct what you perceived, what you valued, and what you’d change.
- Not Things But Judgments
Judgments of learning (JOLs) are in-the-moment predictions about how well information will be remembered later. Thomas Nelson’s research showed JOLs are often inaccurate — biased upward by current processing fluency — causing learners to declare items "learned" prematurely and under-study material they will later forget. Delayed JOLs and retrieval-based checks produce more accurate predictions and better study-time allocation.
- Novel Situation Judgment
Flag situations that don’t quite fit a familiar pattern and switch from intuitive to analytical processing.
Override recognition and deliberate when the situation is genuinely novel
- Phronesis Aristotle S Practical Wisdom As A Caregiver
Phronesis is Aristotle’s term for practical wisdom — the cultivated ability to discern the right action in a particular situation, rather than applying rules mechanically. It develops through deliberate reflection on experience, not through reading principles alone.
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