Coaching practices for How to Learn From Decisions

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• I started writing my decisions down but I never actually go back to close the loop
• I beat myself up over a call that went badly even though it was reasonable with what I knew, and I pat myself on the back for a reckless one that happened to work
• After the fact I can never honestly reconstruct what I was actually thinking when I chose
• I agonize for days over tiny choices I could undo in a second, then rush the big ones I can’t take back
• I beat myself up over a call that went badly even though it was the right move with what I knew, and I let myself off the hook for reckless ones that happened to work out

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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.
4. Log the decision before the outcome
   Write what you decided, why, and what you expect — before you know how it turns out.
   Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time
5. 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
6. Separate the quality of the decision from the outcome
   A good decision can produce a bad outcome, and a bad decision can produce a good outcome — do not confuse them.
   Thinking in Bets
7. Always ask what happens next after the obvious effect
   For any decision, trace at least two steps of consequences before committing.
   Mental Models: Charlie Munger’s Latticework Approach
8. Evaluate decisions by process, not outcome
   Judge a decision by the quality of the reasoning at the time, not by what happened.
   Hindsight Bias: Why Everything Seems Obvious in Retrospect
9. Judge decisions by the process, not the result
   A good decision that produces a bad outcome is still a good decision.
   Expected Value Thinking: Deciding Under Uncertainty
10. Keep a second-order decision journal
    Record the downstream effects you predicted, then check them later.
    Second-Order Thinking: And Then What?

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