Coaching practices for Superforecasting When Burned Out
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- When a prediction of mine blows up, I either spiral into thinking the whole thing is pointless or I just shrug and forget it
- Every new thing I start, I throw myself in obsessed and sure this is the one that sticks
- Once I’ve made up my mind I dig in and won’t budge until I’m absolutely certain I was wrong
- The question is so big and tangled that I just go with my gut and blurt out a number, and it feels like a guess because it is one
- My performance keeps sliding, my mood and sleep are tanking, and my gut reaction is to train harder to push through it
Practices that may help
- Treat forecasting accuracy as a skill that improves with practice
Take prediction errors as performance feedback, not as proof that forecasting is futile.
Superforecasting - Superforecasting
Philip Tetlock’s forecasting tournament research found that a subset of ordinary people — "superforecasters" — consistently outperform domain experts and intelligence analysts at probabilistic prediction. They share measurable cognitive and behavioral habits: they think in probabilities, update frequently on evidence, and actively seek disconfirming information. These habits are learnable. - Calibrate expectations for how long novelty will sustain motivation
New projects and environments produce an initial motivational burst that reliably fades — plan for this.
Affect Forecasting: Why You Mispredicted How You’d Feel - Update beliefs frequently and in small increments
When new evidence arrives, adjust your probability estimate — even if the change is small.
Superforecasting - Decompose complex questions into sub-questions
Break a hard forecasting question into smaller, estimable pieces and aggregate them.
Superforecasting - Distinguish functional overreaching from non-functional overtraining
Functional overreaching (planned short-term overload) leads to supercompensation; non-functional overtraining is a breakdown that can take months to reverse.
Supercompensation - Affect Forecasting: Why You Mispredicted How You’d Feel
Daniel Gilbert and colleagues showed that people reliably misjudge both the intensity and duration of their future emotional reactions — overestimating how bad bad events will feel and how good good events will feel. The mechanism is "impact bias": we focus on the event and ignore the adaptive processes that will moderate it. This research is well-replicated and has direct implications for how you make decisions, build habits, and manage expectations. - Update your forecast incrementally as new evidence arrives
Treat your forecast as a probability that should shift with each new piece of evidence, not a commitment that survives contradiction.
Reference Class Forecasting - Distinguish cognitive optimism bias from strategic misrepresentation
Recognize that some forecast inflation is genuine bias and some is deliberate spin — they require different fixes.
Reference Class Forecasting - Ask people who’ve been there instead of imagining it
Other people’s actual experiences predict your future feelings more accurately than your own imagination.
Affect Forecasting: Why You Mispredicted How You’d Feel
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- Superforecasting As A Caregiver
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- Superforecasting During A Big Change
When new evidence arrives, adjust your probability estimate — even if the change is small.
Update beliefs frequently and in small increments
- Superforecasting During Conflict
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- Superforecasting With My Partner
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