Coaching practices for Risk Identification Framework
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I always seem to realize a thing is going off the rails only once I’m in way too deep to back out
- I keep getting blindsided by the same kind of situation
- I’m reaching for a framework that worked great somewhere else and dropping it onto this situation, and a part of me isn’t sure the two cases are actually the same kind of thing underneath
- Something unfamiliar just frightens me more than the everyday risks I shrug off, even when I suspect the ordinary one is actually more likely to hurt me
- I’m starting to notice there’s a whole category of things
Practices that may help
- Turn top risks into tripwires
Set a specific signal that tells you a feared failure is starting to happen.
The Pre-Mortem: Imagine It Already Failed - Conduct premortems on your past recognition failures
Review cases where pattern recognition led you wrong to find the shared structural feature that fools you.
Recognition-Primed Decision Making - Question whether the category you’re reasoning from actually fits
Before applying a model or framework, verify that the category it was built on genuinely matches your situation.
The Ludic Fallacy: When You Mistake Real Life for a Game - 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 - Track recurring domains where you consistently avoid the unfamiliar
Spot where unfamiliarity — not actual risk — is driving your avoidance, by logging avoidance decisions over time.
Ambiguity Aversion — Why Unknown Odds Feel Worse Than Bad Odds - Black hat: identify risks and why something could fail
Apply the most rigorous critical scrutiny to the idea — the black hat is the voice of caution and evidence-based pessimism.
Six Thinking Hats, Made Practical - Run a premortem before committing
Imagine the decision has already failed — then ask why.
Thinking in Bets - Rate each failure by likelihood and impact
Turn the raw failure list into a prioritized set of risks to mitigate.
The Pre-Mortem: Imagine It Already Failed - Override recognition and deliberate when the situation is genuinely novel
Flag situations that don’t quite fit a familiar pattern and switch from intuitive to analytical processing.
Recognition-Primed Decision Making - Compare the feared risk to risks you already accept
Calibrate a new fear by comparing it to baseline risks you live with without anxiety.
Availability Cascades: How Fears Spread and Inflate
Related concerns
- How To Evaluate Risks Objectively
Estimate risk and benefit independently — don’t let the same feeling drive both.
Assess risk and benefit on separate scales before comparing
- Risk Mitigation Personal
For every worst case, write what you could do to reduce the odds of it happening.
Plan how to prevent each worst case
- How To Think Independently About Risk
Estimate risk and benefit independently — don’t let the same feeling drive both.
- Unfamiliarity Bias Tracking
Estimate what you’d accept under comparable known-odds risk — if your bar is much higher for unknown odds, that gap is the bias.
Check whether you’re demanding an unfair ambiguity premium
- Black Swan Risk Planning
Reserve capacity for events that are not in your risk model — because the most damaging events usually aren’t.
Build plans with slack for outcomes outside your model
- How To Account For Risk Aversion
Loss aversion is the well-documented tendency for losses to feel roughly twice as painful as equivalent gains feel good, which pushes people toward bad decisions to avoid the sting of a loss. It is one of the most reliably replicated findings in behavioral economics — the practical skill is learning to notice when the framing, not the facts, is driving you.
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