Coaching for the challenges people actually bring (page 268)

The accusation audit · Run an accusation audit before difficult asks · Steelman objections to your own plans + 7 more

Pre-explanation rating with commitment · Expert-explanation comparison · Diagnose which route your audience is on before you speak + 7 more

Pre-Suasion, Made Practical · Channel attention to the relevant concept before the ask · Pre-expose an idea before formally proposing it + 7 more

Audit and remove default-installed apps you never chose · Redesign your home screen as a tool, not a feed · Increase friction on high-capture apps + 7 more

A pause of gratitude before eating · Gratitude and acknowledgment before meals · Eating without hurry + 7 more

Ground before and after any mindfulness practice · Grounding through physical contact with surfaces · Recognize activation signals during practice + 7 more

Pre-Performance Routines, Made Practical · Set your posture before high-stakes moments · Create a pre-performance ritual that includes posture + 7 more

The Pre-Mortem: Imagine It Already Failed · Seneca’s evening court — judge the day as an honest prosecutor · Write a brief final accounting + 7 more

Memento Mori: Using Mortality Awareness to Focus What Matters · The Pre-Mortem: Imagine It Already Failed · Memento mori as the ultimate premeditation + 7 more

Memento mori as the ultimate premeditation · The Pre-Mortem: Imagine It Already Failed · Write a brief final accounting + 7 more

Combine the pre-mortem with red team pressure · Red Teaming: Stress-Testing Plans Before They Fail · Require the plan to change, not just the risk register + 7 more

Debrief against process goals, not just the outcome · Conduct post-project debriefs to contribute to the class data · Distinguish outcomes from tasks when setting your three + 7 more

Pre-Performance Routines, Made Practical · Include a brief process imagery step in your routine · Install a focus cue as the final routine step + 7 more

Pre-Performance Routines, Made Practical · Include a brief process imagery step in your routine · Use your mental representation to plan the performance before executing it + 7 more

Reappraise physiological arousal as activation, not anxiety · Recalibrate arousal as readiness, not threat · Match your routine’s arousal level to the task demand + 7 more

Simulated altitude breathing drills before training · Use box breathing before — not only during — stress · Reduced-volume breathing to raise CO2 tolerance + 7 more

Havening to clear pre-performance anxiety · Pre-Performance Routines, Made Practical · De-activation Strategies for Over-Arousal + 7 more

Design your pre-performance sequence with clear functional anchors · Pre-Performance Routines, Made Practical · Create a pre-performance ritual that includes posture + 7 more

Pre-Performance Routines, Made Practical · Standardize the duration of your routine · Practice routine disruption so it doesn’t derail performance + 7 more

Pre-Performance Routines, Made Practical · Anchor clutch performance to a practiced pressure routine · Create a pre-performance ritual that includes posture + 7 more

Pre-Performance Routines, Made Practical · Standardize the duration of your routine · Install a focus cue as the final routine step + 7 more

Pre-Performance Routines, Made Practical · Design your pre-performance sequence with clear functional anchors · Anchor the wind-down with a consistent starting cue + 7 more

Standardize the duration of your routine · Pre-Performance Routines, Made Practical · Practice routine disruption so it doesn’t derail performance + 7 more

Pre-Performance Routines, Made Practical · The Ideal Performance State, Made Practical · Include a brief process imagery step in your routine + 7 more

Serving from a distance, not the table · Eating from smaller dishes · Use partitioning to limit overuse of resources + 7 more

Write what you already know before reading a topic · Generate questions before reading to drive deep processing · Start before you feel ready + 7 more

Select the specific coping skills you will use — in advance · Cope Ahead: DBT’s Method for Preparing for Difficult Situations · Review what happened after the event to refine the next cope ahead + 7 more

Create a pre-performance ritual that includes posture · Design your pre-performance sequence with clear functional anchors · Set a clear intention before the session + 7 more

Pre-Performance Routines, Made Practical · Create a pre-performance ritual that includes posture · Design your pre-performance sequence with clear functional anchors + 7 more

Sleep Banking: Building a Buffer Before Sleep Loss · Extend sleep before an anticipated shortfall · Schedule learning before sleep to leverage overnight consolidation + 7 more

Dim lights for the 60 minutes before bed · Avoid bright overhead light in the 2 hours before bed · Dim light in the evening + 7 more

Load a hard problem before sleep · The Pre-Sleep Worry Buffer · Use the two-process model to diagnose your specific sleep problem + 7 more

Anchor the wind-down with a consistent starting cue · Build a consistent pre-sleep wind-down routine · Build a wind-down buffer before bed + 7 more

The Pre-Sleep Worry Buffer · Schedule a worry time earlier in the day · Offload cognitive load with a bedtime worry journal + 7 more

Specify what would falsify your belief before you look at evidence · Actively seek disconfirming evidence · Structure the analysis before searching for evidence + 7 more

Pre-Suasion, Made Practical · Name the feeling to defuse the reflex · Pre-commit to a rule before the loss is live + 7 more

Negative visualization (premeditatio malorum) · Recover promotion-focus motivation through approach-reminders after setbacks · Recover from setbacks without quitting the goal + 7 more

Pre-Suasion, Made Practical · Place your message in a context that evokes the right associations · Prime identity before the ask — "what kind of person are you?" + 7 more

Pre-Suasion, Made Practical · Use Plan B: the three-step collaborative conversation · Engage the upstairs brain through curiosity and play + 7 more

Pre-Suasion, Made Practical · Anchor the wind-down with a consistent starting cue · Evening yoga routine for sleep + 7 more

Pre-Suasion, Made Practical · Cialdini’s Principles of Influence · Activate unity — shared identity before the message + 7 more

Elicit a small consistency cue before the main ask · Pre-Suasion, Made Practical · Commitment and consistency + 7 more

Pre-Suasion, Made Practical · Use Plan B: the three-step collaborative conversation · Engage the upstairs brain through curiosity and play + 7 more

Pre-Suasion, Made Practical · Elicit a small consistency cue before the main ask · Place your message in a context that evokes the right associations + 7 more

Pre-Suasion, Made Practical · Channel attention to the relevant concept before the ask · Place your message in a context that evokes the right associations + 7 more

Pre-Suasion, Made Practical · Remove or modify the cue rather than resist the response · Use if-then planning to bypass depleted willpower + 7 more

Pre-Suasion, Made Practical · Place your message in a context that evokes the right associations · Broken record: maintaining a position without escalating + 7 more

Pre-Suasion, Made Practical · Channel attention to the relevant concept before the ask · Elicit a small consistency cue before the main ask + 7 more

Pre-Suasion, Made Practical · Place your message in a context that evokes the right associations · Elicit a small consistency cue before the main ask + 7 more

Pre-Suasion, Made Practical · Place your message in a context that evokes the right associations · Elicit a small consistency cue before the main ask + 7 more

Pre-Suasion, Made Practical · Channel attention to the relevant concept before the ask · Place your message in a context that evokes the right associations + 7 more

Design your pre-performance sequence with clear functional anchors · Create a pre-performance ritual that includes posture · Pre-Performance Routines, Made Practical + 7 more

Pair fermented foods with prebiotic fiber · Eat a wide diversity of plant fiber · Prioritize fiber diversity over total fiber grams + 7 more

Understand the vagus nerve pathway between gut bacteria and mood · Dietary Fiber for Mood, Made Practical · Eat legumes at least once daily for prebiotic fiber + 7 more

Eat legumes at least once daily for prebiotic fiber · Eat legumes four or more times per week · Pair fermented foods with prebiotic fiber + 7 more

Pair fermented foods with prebiotic fiber · Eat legumes four or more times per week · Eat polyphenol-rich foods daily + 7 more

Pair fermented foods with prebiotic fiber · Add a daily fermented food · Reintroduce fermented foods slowly after gut disruption + 7 more

Make your beliefs precise enough to be wrong · Beware false precision in forecasts and models · Surface and test underlying assumptions + 7 more

Use precise, not round, numbers · Anchor on what you know and scale from there · Use precise, non-round numbers in final offers + 7 more

Use precise, not round, numbers · Anchoring Bias in Negotiation and Judgment · Set a deliberate anchor before the target number + 7 more

Define the problem precisely before solving it · Define — frame the right problem · Define the root question precisely before building the tree + 7 more

Use precommitment devices to lock in future behavior from a patient vantage point · Precommitment Devices (Ulysses Contracts) · Use commitment devices to make future behavior harder to avoid + 7 more

Precommitment Devices (Ulysses Contracts) · Use commitment devices to make future behavior harder to avoid · Lock in the future-oriented choice before the temptation arrives + 7 more

Precommitment Devices (Ulysses Contracts) · Use precommitment devices to lock in future behavior from a patient vantage point · Use commitment devices to make future behavior harder to avoid + 7 more

Precommitment Devices (Ulysses Contracts) · Use precommitment devices to lock in future behavior from a patient vantage point · Maintain an explicit "no" list for categories of commitments + 7 more

Use a precommitment device to lock in future behavior · Use precommitment devices to lock in future behavior from a patient vantage point · Precommitment Devices (Ulysses Contracts) + 7 more

Precommitment Devices (Ulysses Contracts) · Use precommitment devices to lock in future behavior from a patient vantage point · Use commitment devices to make future behavior harder to avoid + 7 more

Identify your current stage before choosing a strategy · Apply the experiential processes early, behavioral ones later · Pros and cons before acting on an urge + 7 more

Track your personal early-warning signals · Withdrawer: signal presence before retreating · Use the orienting response to signal safety + 7 more

Calibration practice · Pre-Performance Routines, Made Practical · Confidence-accuracy gap tracking + 7 more

Use consistent rituals as reliable safety cues · Using rhythm and repetition to regulate · Map your personal safety and threat cues + 7 more

Map your personal safety and threat cues · Use consistent rituals as reliable safety cues · Neuroception: How Your Nervous System Reads Safety Before Your Mind Does + 7 more

Confidence-accuracy gap tracking · Calibration practice · Track the accuracy of your domain predictions + 7 more

Calibration practice · Confidence-accuracy gap tracking · Attempt to recall before studying new material + 7 more

Practice probabilistic calibration by tracking your predictions · Superforecasting · Treat forecasting accuracy as a skill that improves with practice + 7 more

Practice probabilistic calibration by tracking your predictions · Track the accuracy of your domain predictions · Maintain a scored prediction log + 7 more

Treat forecasting accuracy as a skill that improves with practice · Errorful Learning: Why Making Mistakes Strengthens Memory · Receive corrective feedback promptly after a test attempt + 7 more

Keep a decision journal to score your EV estimates · Maintain a scored prediction log · Score your own past predictions to calibrate your outside-view use + 7 more

Pre-commit to resolution criteria before making a prediction · Treat forecasting accuracy as a skill that improves with practice · Beware false precision in forecasts and models + 7 more

Behavioral Experiments: Testing Beliefs in the Real World · Behavioral experiments · Identifying the Belief to Test + 7 more

Treat forecasting accuracy as a skill that improves with practice · Reward Prediction Error: Using Dopamine Science to Stay Motivated · Violation of expectancy: test the feared prediction + 7 more

Pre-commit to resolution criteria before making a prediction · Treat forecasting accuracy as a skill that improves with practice · Form a testable prediction before you act + 7 more

Define measurable Key Results · Track performance goals with quantitative metrics · Define success by growth and contribution, not scorekeeping + 7 more

Share information to unlock value · Inform stakeholders before they ask, not after they complain · The accusation audit + 7 more

The accusation audit · Practice "Tell me more" — defer rebuttal until genuine understanding · Run an accusation audit before difficult asks + 7 more

For many decisions, going with your gut outperforms lengthy analysis · Elicit your real standards before you look · Preload trivial decisions with a recommended option + 7 more

For many decisions, going with your gut outperforms lengthy analysis · Redesign option order to exploit position bias · Correctly separate needs from wants + 7 more

Ask "why" before proposing any solution · Elicit your real standards before you look · Test whether your request is actually a demand + 7 more

Future Self Continuity, Made Practical · Automate future-self allocations at a moment of patience · Build a vivid, concrete future orientation + 7 more

Build a vivid, concrete future orientation · Make your future self vivid to reduce psychological distance · Vividly visualize your future self in concrete detail + 7 more

Trust the harder-feeling session · Check whether a third option is changing your view of the original two · Apply the outcome equivalence test + 7 more

The discipline of action · The Stoic Reserve Clause · Pursue preferred indifferents without requiring them + 7 more

The discipline of action · Pursue preferred indifferents without requiring them · Pursue preferred indifferents with full effort but without attachment + 7 more

Narrative Therapy: Rewriting the Stories That Define You · Re-Authoring the Alternative Story · Therapeutic Letters + 7 more

Activate the pause-and-plan response before acting · Remove temptations from the environment rather than resisting them · Engage the upstairs brain through curiosity and play + 7 more

Find a community that recognises your specific loss · Practice speaking about the loss to people outside your immediate circle · Look honestly for what has grown or changed for the better + 7 more

Preload trivial decisions with a recommended option · Build pattern libraries through deliberate case exposure · State your estimate before encountering vivid case information + 7 more

Notice and soften avoidant deactivation · Name the fear driving an avoidance goal · Use avoidance orientation as a diagnostic signal + 7 more

Frame precision and safety-critical goals as losses to prevent · Run a premortem before committing · Open with something unexpected to direct attention deliberately + 7 more

Protect the strategy from well-meaning optimism · The premortem (imagine the project already failed) · Distinguish obstacle-confronting from free-dreaming and indulging + 7 more