Coaching practices for How to Improve Decision Making Over Time
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- I started writing my decisions down but I never actually go back to close the loop
- I’m staring at a choice and the only thing I can feel is how it lands right now
- I keep being so sure I’m right and then being wrong, and I have no way to see whether my confidence actually means anything
- I agonize for days over tiny choices I could undo in a second, then rush the big ones I can’t take back
- There’s a tangled decision with too many moving parts to hold in my head all at once, and I feel pushed to just call it now and be done
Practices that may help
- Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
A decision journal is a written record of significant decisions — what you decided, why, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened. It counteracts hindsight bias and outcome bias by preserving your actual reasoning before the outcome arrives, and it creates the only feedback loop that produces real calibration: comparing your predictions to results across many decisions over time. - Run a weekly decision review session
Set aside 20 minutes each week to score past decisions and extract one lesson.
Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time - Apply all three horizons explicitly
Before deciding, write a sentence answering each: 10 minutes, 10 months, 10 years.
The 10-10-10 Rule - Track your calibration across many predictions
Score your confidence levels against outcomes over dozens of predictions to find your systematic biases.
Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time - Classify decisions by reversibility and stakes
Sort decisions into low-stakes/high-stakes and reversible/irreversible before deciding.
Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time - Sleep on important decisions
For complex decisions, delay commitment overnight — sleep processing integrates information deliberate thought misses.
The Three Bs of Creativity: Bed, Bath, and Bus - Eliminate recurring micro-decisions with standing rules
Convert repeated low-stakes decisions into rules so willpower isn’t spent on them daily.
The Not-To-Do List - Use the 10-year view to check values alignment
Ask: is the 10-year version of this choice consistent with what I actually care about?
The 10-10-10 Rule - Check the consequence across time horizons
A choice can be good at one day, bad at one year — name the result at each horizon.
Second-Order Thinking: And Then What? - Keep a decision journal to score your EV estimates
Log your probability estimates and payoff predictions, then compare them to what happened.
Expected Value Thinking: Deciding Under Uncertainty
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A decision journal is a written record of significant decisions — what you decided, why, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened. It counteracts hindsight bias and outcome bias by preserving your actual reasoning before the outcome arrives, and it creates the only feedback loop that produces real calibration: comparing your predictions to results across many decisions over time.
- How To Make Better Decisions
A decision journal is a written record of significant decisions — what you decided, why, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened. It counteracts hindsight bias and outcome bias by preserving your actual reasoning before the outcome arrives, and it creates the only feedback loop that produces real calibration: comparing your predictions to results across many decisions over time.
- How To Make Better Long Term Decisions
Deliberately invest time and energy in efforts that will only pay off decades from now.
Cultivate an "acorn brain": plant what you will not harvest
- Decision Journal
A decision journal is a written record of significant decisions — what you decided, why, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened. It counteracts hindsight bias and outcome bias by preserving your actual reasoning before the outcome arrives, and it creates the only feedback loop that produces real calibration: comparing your predictions to results across many decisions over time.
- Decision Journaling Learning To Decide Better Over Time At Work
A decision journal is a written record of significant decisions — what you decided, why, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened. It counteracts hindsight bias and outcome bias by preserving your actual reasoning before the outcome arrives, and it creates the only feedback loop that produces real calibration: comparing your predictions to results across many decisions over time.
- Decision Journaling Learning To Decide Better Over Time In A New Job
A decision journal is a written record of significant decisions — what you decided, why, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened. It counteracts hindsight bias and outcome bias by preserving your actual reasoning before the outcome arrives, and it creates the only feedback loop that produces real calibration: comparing your predictions to results across many decisions over time.
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