Coaching practices for Memory Bias Annual Review

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

• When I try to look back on the whole year, all I can really summon is the last few weeks and the couple of dramatic moments
• I only ever take stock of my life around New Year’s, and by then the year I’m grading is already gone
• When I look at what went wrong this year I catch myself blaming the timing, other people, the circumstances
• Every time I pile on a new chapter the last one quietly drops off the back, and I keep promising myself a "review week" that never actually happens
• I need this to still be there a year from now, not just for the test on Friday

Practices that may help

1. Gather raw material before reflecting
   Pull the data — calendar, photos, notes, emails — before you begin reflecting, so memory does not do all the work.
   The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method)
2. The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method)
   Tim Ferriss’s annual review is built on two questions — "What went well this year?" and "What did not go well this year?" — applied systematically across major life domains and answered with enough specificity to produce different decisions next year. It is a practitioner tool without clinical evidence, but its mechanisms (structured reflection, explicit failure review, behavioral specificity) are consistent with goal-review and learning research.
3. Run a quarterly life audit, not just an annual one
   Review all four quadrants of your life every 90 days while the feedback loop is still tight enough to correct.
   The Eisenhower Life Audit
4. Spend more time on "what did not go well" than on what did
   Failure analysis contains the most actionable information in any honest review.
   The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method)
5. Mix review of older material with study of new material in every session
   Reserve part of every session for retrieving older material before it falls off the forgetting curve entirely.
   The Forgetting Curve: How Memory Decays and How to Fight It
6. Space reviews at increasing intervals after each successful retrieval
   After each successful review, increase the interval before the next one — this is how you make memories last for years on the same total time investment.
   The Forgetting Curve: How Memory Decays and How to Fight It
7. Share the review with someone who will ask honest questions
   A review held privately is easier to fudge; one shared with an honest questioner is harder to rationalize.
   The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method)
8. Use what you forget as a diagnostic, not a verdict
   Track which items are forgotten at each review interval — that pattern reveals the structure of your knowledge gaps more accurately than any self-assessment.
   The Forgetting Curve: How Memory Decays and How to Fight It
9. Track how you actually feel during experiences, not just afterward
   Memory of happiness is unreliable — what actually felt good during the experience matters more than the retrospective story.
   Affect Forecasting: Why You Mispredicted How You’d Feel
10. Go deep on "what went well" — extract the recipe, not just the win
    A win recorded but not analyzed produces no transferable knowledge — identify what specifically caused it.
    The Annual Review (Tim Ferriss Method)

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