Coaching practices for Relative Value Perception

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

• The thing I’m offering sounds expensive the way I keep describing it, and I’m sure it’s worth it
• I read "thousands affected" and feel a pang, then "hundreds of thousands" and feel that exact same pang
• I have to put a price on what I’m offering and the number sounds huge said out loud on its own
• Once I’ve decided I like something, the upside looks huge and the downside basically vanishes
• Someone fits the picture of a type so perfectly that I just assume that’s what they are

Practices that may help

1. Reframe the offer’s reference point
   Change what the offer is compared against, and its perceived value changes.
   The Framing Effect
2. Translate scale into numbers before you respond
   Before reacting to any quantity-based problem, convert the scale into a concrete number you can compare.
   Scope Insensitivity: Why Scale Doesn’t Change Your Feelings
3. Reframe a cost against a larger, legitimate reference point
   A price or investment looks smaller when contrasted with a larger relevant figure.
   The Contrast Principle, Made Practical
4. 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
5. Look up base rates before forming a resemblance judgment
   Before deciding "this looks like X," ask how common X actually is in the relevant population.
   The Representativeness Heuristic — Judging by Resemblance
6. Seek expert technical risk estimates — but note where values legitimately differ
   Use technical probability estimates to ground your risk perception, while acknowledging that some risk disagreements are value-based, not factual.
   The Affect Heuristic — When Feelings Substitute for Facts
7. Correct for “identified victim” over-weighting
   Recognizing that vivid individual stories feel more compelling than identical statistics helps you allocate attention and resources more rationally.
   The Affect Heuristic — When Feelings Substitute for Facts
8. Use perceptual contrast to make the real ask look small
   Anchored against a large request, your actual ask seems much more reasonable.
   The Door-in-the-Face Technique, Made Practical
9. Apply the "value per dollar" test to major purchases
   Before a large purchase, ask how much wellbeing per dollar this generates relative to alternatives at the same cost.
   Values-Based Spending, Made Practical
10. Interrogate whether similarity is doing the work
    When assessing probability or quality, ask whether you’re really judging similarity to a prototype.
    Attribute Substitution: When Your Brain Answers a Different Question

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