Coaching practices for Overconfidence Bias

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

• The stuff I’m most certain I’ve nailed is exactly what blindsides me on the test
• The areas where I feel most sure and think "oh this is obvious, I’ve got this" are turning out to be exactly where I get blindsided
• I’d jump on this in a heartbeat if it were the familiar version, but because it’s in a world I don’t know I’m demanding way more proof before I’ll touch it
• There’s one area I consider myself an expert in, and that’s exactly where I’m most stubbornly sure and most often wrong
• Once I believe something, I only ever notice the things that prove me right

Practices that may help

1. Regression-to-mean awareness in JOLs
   Discount your highest-confidence JOLs most — they are the most likely to be inflated.
   Judgments of Learning: Why You Misjudge What You’ve Learned
2. Watch for the signatures of overconfidence
   Treat "this is obvious" and "I’ve got this" as warning signs, not green lights.
   Metacognition: Knowing What You Actually Know
3. Check whether you’re demanding an unfair ambiguity premium
   Estimate what you’d accept under comparable known-odds risk — if your bar is much higher for unknown odds, that gap is the bias.
   Ambiguity Aversion — Why Unknown Odds Feel Worse Than Bad Odds
4. Identify the specific domains where you are most overconfident
   Calibration is domain-specific — find where your confidence most exceeds your accuracy.
   Calibration Training
5. Actively seek disconfirming evidence
   Deliberately look for evidence that your current belief is wrong.
   Superforecasting
6. Ask 'What am I missing?' before major decisions
   Treat a confident feeling before a high-stakes decision as a cue to check what your competence map is omitting.
   Circle of Competence
7. Distinguish skill from luck in outcomes
   After any result, estimate how much of it was within your control versus determined by chance.
   Hindsight Bias: Why Everything Seems Obvious in Retrospect
8. Log probability estimates before the outcome
   Write down your confidence level and reasoning before you know how things turn out.
   Hindsight Bias: Why Everything Seems Obvious in Retrospect
9. Estimate conservatively and act on the conservative number
   When uncertain, use a pessimistic estimate as your working assumption — not your best guess.
   Margin of Safety
10. Default to assuming you’ve been misunderstood
    After any important message, assume it landed differently than you intended — then check.
    Closeness-Communication Bias

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