Coaching practices for Implicit Premise

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• My conclusion feels airtight and yet something nags at me, and I think it’s that the whole thing only holds if a couple of unspoken things are true
• My conclusion only makes sense because of a bunch of things I’m silently taking for granted about people and how the world works
• On paper my reasoning checks out, but the conclusion still feels shaky and I can’t locate why
• It’s not one person — it’s that I walk through the world assuming people are basically selfish, lazy, out for themselves, so I’m braced for the worst from everyone before they’ve done a thing, and I’m exhausted by how much suspicion I carry as my baseline.
• I’m about to commit to something that sounds right on its own, but I haven’t traced what it would actually commit me to downstream

Practices that may help

1. Surface and test underlying assumptions
   Identify the implicit assumptions that your reasoning depends on and test whether they hold.
   Socratic Questioning
2. Surface and examine the assumptions you are making
   Name the assumptions filling the gap between the data you selected and the interpretation you reached.
   The Ladder of Inference
3. Surface the hidden premises
   Find the unstated assumptions that the argument needs to work.
   Argument Mapping
4. Set charitable interpretation as your cognitive default
   Deliberately adopt the assumption that people are probably doing their best given their constraints.
   Hanlon's Razor: Never Attribute to Malice What Stupidity Can Explain
5. Explore the implications and consequences of a position
   Ask "if that is true, what follows?" to test whether accepting a claim creates downstream problems.
   Socratic Questioning
6. Run a premortem before committing
   Imagine the project has already failed and work backwards to find why.
   The Planning Fallacy — Why Your Estimates Are Always Wrong
7. Probe for evidence behind claims
   Ask "what evidence supports that?" before accepting any factual or evaluative claim.
   Socratic Questioning
8. Set the constraint: what conclusions would you not accept?
   Pre-define which conclusions would be embarrassing, then monitor whether your reasoning is steering away from them.
   Motivated Reasoning
9. Test each component probability separately
   Before judging a joint claim, estimate each element on its own, then check whether the conjunction is lower.
   The Conjunction Fallacy — When "More Details" Feels More Likely
10. Interdependence as a daily relational practice
    See every interaction as a mutual arising — you are not encountering a fixed person but a process that is partly shaped by your presence.
    Dependent Origination: How Suffering Arises and Ceases

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