Coaching practices for How to Learn From Planning

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• I just plunge into the work head-down and never come up for air, so a wrong approach runs all the way to the deadline before I notice
• I tend to figure out my plan the same morning I’m supposed to start, in a rush to just get going
• I’m about to lock in a plan that feels airtight from the inside
• I keep planning by staring at the huge faraway goal and feeling stuck, when what I actually need is to look at what I already have right now and ask what that makes possible this week.
• When I ask myself "what could go wrong with this plan," I either draw a blank or come up with one vague worry

Practices that may help

1. Run a plan-monitor-evaluate loop
   Before, during, and after a task, ask what you will do, how it is going, and what to change.
   Metacognition: Knowing What You Actually Know
2. Separate the planning session from the execution day
   Do your planning in a dedicated session, never on the day you intend to start.
   The Planning Fallacy — Why Your Estimates Are Always Wrong
3. Invoke the outside view before committing to any significant plan
   Before finalizing a plan or forecast, ask "How did similar things go?" as the first checkpoint.
   The Outside View
4. Map your current edge: what is one step away from where you are?
   List everything that is genuinely accessible from your current skills, relationships, and resources — your adjacent possible is defined by what you already have.
   The Adjacent Possible, Made Practical
5. Run the basic pre-mortem
   Assume the plan failed, then have everyone write down why.
   The Pre-Mortem: Imagine It Already Failed
6. The Planning Fallacy — Why Your Estimates Are Always Wrong
   The planning fallacy is the well-replicated tendency to underestimate completion times even when you know your past projects ran late. The fix is not to "try harder" — it is to switch from imagining the ideal future scenario to consulting your own base-rate history and similar projects.
7. Review and update action plans at a fixed weekly cadence
   An action plan that is not reviewed weekly becomes stale — regular review keeps the plan matched to current reality.
   Action Planning
8. Plan for obstacles with coping plans
   Anticipate the specific obstacles most likely to block your plan and pre-decide your response to each.
   Action Planning
9. Run a pre-mortem to interrupt forward narrative construction
   Before committing to a plan, imagine it failed completely — then generate the most plausible story of why.
   The Narrative Fallacy: Why We Can’t Stop Making Stories
10. The premortem (imagine the project already failed)
    Before starting, assume the plan has already failed and ask why — then fix it now.
    Premeditatio Malorum, in Depth

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