Coaching practices for Independent Evaluation Decision Making

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

• There’s a big, hard-to-undo choice in front of me
• I walked out of that sales pitch about to say yes to the "middle" option, and only later did it hit me that the pricey one they showed first was probably there just to make this one feel reasonable
• 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
• We decide things by group vote and the loud idea-lovers always carry the room, while the one person whose gut is usually right about what won’t work gets drowned out
• I decide what still needs work purely on vibes

Practices that may help

1. Recognition-Primed Decision Making
   Gary Klein’s research found that experienced practitioners in high-stakes environments rarely compare options side by side. Instead, they recognize a situation as a familiar type, mentally simulate one course of action, and go with it if the simulation holds up — a process that is fast, accurate under time pressure, and breaks down predictably when the situation is genuinely novel.
2. Stay inside for high-stakes, irreversible decisions
   Reserve your autonomous judgment for decisions within your circle; get help for the rest.
   Circle of Competence
3. Recognize when contrast is being used on you
   Awareness of the contrast principle is the antidote — evaluate options against an independent standard, not the presented sequence.
   The Contrast Principle, Made Practical
4. 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
5. Route decisions to your Discernment genius
   Evaluation decisions drain Wonder and Tenacity geniuses — protect your evaluators and route decisions to them.
   The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
6. Restudy decision protocol
   Use a defined decision rule — not a feeling — to determine which items get additional study.
   Judgments of Learning: Why You Misjudge What You’ve Learned
7. Evaluate solutions against costs, benefits, and fit
   Rate each solution on likelihood of success, personal costs, and fit with your values.
   Problem-Solving Therapy, Made Practical
8. Assess risk and benefit on separate scales before comparing
   Estimate risk and benefit independently — don’t let the same feeling drive both.
   The Affect Heuristic — When Feelings Substitute for Facts
9. 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
10. 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

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