Coaching practices for How to Interpret Performance Swings

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• After one unusually bad showing I conclude something’s really wrong, and after one great one I’m sure they’ve turned a corner
• I had one unusually bad stretch, then I changed something, and now things are better
• Some weeks everything just clicks and I’m killing it, and I have no idea why
• I start a long stretch of demanding work in a good place, but somewhere in the middle I drift
• My life keeps swinging between extremes

Practices that may help

1. Expect extreme results to regress toward average
   Unusually good or bad performance predicts more average performance next time — account for this before giving praise or blame.
   The Representativeness Heuristic — Judging by Resemblance
2. Expect regression to the mean in extreme outcomes
   Unusually good or bad performance tends to be followed by more average performance — not because of what you did.
   Base-Rate Neglect: Why We Ignore the Odds
3. Analyze your best days — not just your failures — to identify what drives success
   When performance is above target, investigate what made it so: replicating peaks is as important as preventing troughs.
   Feedback Loops and Behavior Change
4. Monitoring Your Performance Zone in Real Time
   Learn your personal arousal signals and check them periodically during extended performance tasks.
   The Yerkes-Dodson Law: Finding Your Optimal Performance Zone
5. Understand why systems oscillate — and stop overcorrecting
   Delayed feedback loops and overreaction to perceived gaps cause the boom-bust cycles in your own system.
   Stocks and Flows
6. Weekly trend analysis from daily scores
   Review your scores at the end of each week to spot patterns rather than reacting to single-day noise.
   The Morning Questions
7. Calibrate feedback frequency to the behavior cycle
   Match how often you check feedback to how often the behavior occurs — too frequent is noise, too rare is lag.
   Feedback Loops and Behavior Change
8. Track your wheel scores over time to see trajectory, not just snapshots
   A single wheel is a photograph; repeated wheels are a film — trajectory matters more than today’s score.
   The Wheel of Life, Made Practical
9. Map your personal Ideal Performance State
   Identify the exact mental, emotional, and physical conditions under which you perform at your best.
   The Ideal Performance State, Made Practical
10. Track performance goals with quantitative metrics
    Measure progress toward performance goals with numbers you collect, not impressions.
    Process Goals, Made Practical

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