Coaching practices for Slow Down Fast Judgments

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• I rush the big, costly decisions the same way I rush picking lunch
• Given enough time I can reason my way to the right call, slowly working it out
• This snapped into focus instantly, the way the familiar ones do
• The second something goes even slightly wrong I slap a "that was bad" on it, and the judgment tightens me up so much I can’t even see what actually happened
• Some conclusions just click instantly and feel so obviously right and satisfying that I stop thinking right there

Practices that may help

1. Slow down for high-stakes, irreversible decisions
   Match deliberation to the cost of being wrong: spend System 2 where reversal is hard.
   Thinking, Fast and Slow, Made Usable
2. Rapid classification trials
   Make classification judgments quickly and get immediate feedback to accelerate discrimination learning.
   Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind
3. 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
4. Replace judgment with non-judgmental awareness
   Observe what is actually happening with curious interest rather than approval or disapproval.
   The Inner Game: Quieting Self 1
5. Apply extra scrutiny to conclusions you like
   Treat agreement that feels effortless as a signal to double-check, not a signal to stop.
   Motivated Reasoning
6. Recognition-speed drills
   Flash configurations briefly to force pattern recognition rather than analytical reconstruction.
   Chunking: How Experts See What Beginners Miss
7. Pause and label present bias before acting
   Name what’s happening (“I’m experiencing present bias”) — labeling activates deliberate reasoning and reduces automatic discounting.
   Hyperbolic Discounting — Why Future You Always Gets the Short End
8. Thinking, Fast and Slow, Made Usable
   Daniel Kahneman describes two modes of thought: System 1 is fast, automatic, and intuitive; System 2 is slow, effortful, and deliberate. Better decisions usually come from noticing when a problem deserves System 2 and deliberately slowing down — though some popular claims from the book (notably certain priming studies) failed to replicate.
9. Judgments of Learning: Why You Misjudge What You’ve Learned
   Judgments of learning (JOLs) are in-the-moment predictions about how well information will be remembered later. Thomas Nelson’s research showed JOLs are often inaccurate — biased upward by current processing fluency — causing learners to declare items "learned" prematurely and under-study material they will later forget. Delayed JOLs and retrieval-based checks produce more accurate predictions and better study-time allocation.
10. Move fast on two-way doors
    On reversible decisions, decide with 70% of the information you wish you had — then adjust.
    The Two-Way Door

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