Coaching practices for How to Make Better Decisions
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I started writing my decisions down but I never actually go back to close the loop
- I agonize for days over tiny choices I could undo in a second, then rush the big ones I can’t take back
- Under all this pressure to please people and react, I’m about to make a call that I already sense doesn’t square with who I actually want to be
- 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
- I’m weighing a dozen factors on the same choice I face over and over, and they all blur together
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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Use "take the best": choose on your single most informative cue
When choosing between options, identify the most diagnostic cue and use it — stop searching for more.
Simple Heuristics: Gerd Gigerenzer’s Case for Fast and Frugal Thinking - 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 - Recognize which decisions to defer or delegate
Not every choice deserves your cognitive best — identify which ones merit serious deliberation.
Choice Overload, Made Practical - 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 - 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
Related concerns
- Decision Journaling Learning To Decide Better Over Time When Overwhelmed
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 Improve Decision Quality
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 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 After A Loss
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 Before Bed
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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