Coaching practices for Tell Me More Technique

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

• I can explain it smoothly to myself, but I have a feeling I’m skipping right over the parts I don’t actually get
• On the fine, precise part of what I do my attention scatters at the worst moment and the same small technical thing keeps slipping
• They give me a short, guarded answer and then clam up, and I sense there’s a lot more underneath that they haven’t said
• I explained it once, it felt great, and I declared myself done
• There’s a story I want to talk through but every time I start telling it I lead with the most intense part and my body floods before I get three sentences in

Practices that may help

1. The Feynman Technique, Step by Step
   The Feynman Technique is a four-step loop: pick a concept, explain it in plain language as if teaching a beginner, notice exactly where the explanation breaks down, and go back to fill those gaps. It works because explaining forces you to generate and retrieve the material, which exposes the difference between recognizing an idea and actually understanding it.
2. Teach it to a real person
   Explain the concept to an actual listener who can ask questions back.
   The Feynman Technique, Step by Step
3. Use instructional self-talk for precision skill tasks
   Use short technical cues that direct attention to the key movement parameter rather than the outcome.
   Self-Talk Strategies, Made Practical
4. Mirror to keep them talking
   Repeat their last few words as a question to draw out more without steering.
   Tactical Empathy
5. Run the loop until it is smooth
   Repeat explain–diagnose–relearn until you can explain the whole thing without snags.
   The Feynman Technique, Step by Step
6. Titrate the story — tell only the edges of a difficult narrative
   When a story feels too big to tell fully, tell only its outer layer — what you noticed before it escalated — rather than the most intense part.
   Titration in Somatic Practice, Made Practical
7. Mirroring
   Repeat the last few words the other person said, as a question, then go silent.
   Never Split the Difference, In Practice
8. Mirror the last few words of what someone just said
   Repeat the final one to three words as a question — then stay silent.
   Mirroring and Matching, Made Practical
9. Explain the material to someone else — real or imagined
   Teaching forces you to process at the deepest level: organizing information coherently, identifying gaps, and translating to another person’s perspective.
   Levels of Processing: Why Depth of Encoding Determines What You Remember
10. Attention Training Technique (ATT), Made Practical
    The Attention Training Technique (ATT), developed by Adrian Wells, is a structured auditory exercise that rebuilds voluntary control over where attention goes — directly countering the self-focused, threat-locked attention that sustains anxiety and health anxiety. Randomised trials support its effectiveness as a standalone and as part of Metacognitive Therapy.

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