Coaching practices for The 10 10 10 Rule After a Loss
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- In the calm beforehand I know exactly what the smart move is, but the instant the loss is actually staring at me the panic takes the wheel and I do the fearful thing every time
- This whole thing will be over and done within a day, so asking how I’ll feel in ten years is absurd
- Under all this pressure to please people and react, I’m about to make a call that I already sense doesn’t square with who I actually want to be
- After I skip once, the next day I tell myself "I’ll just start fresh Monday"
- The second I slip I tear into myself
Practices that may help
- The 10-10-10 Rule
Suzy Welch's 10-10-10 rule asks you to evaluate a decision through three time horizons: how will I feel about this in 10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years? It is a heuristic for countering short-term emotional reactions by making long-run consequences more cognitively vivid. Evidence for the technique specifically is limited, but it draws on well-supported research on temporal discounting and affective forecasting. - Pre-commit to a rule before the loss is live
Decide your action in a cool moment so the hot, loss-averse moment cannot hijack it.
Loss Aversion, Made Practical - Calibrate the time horizons to the actual decision
10-10-10 is a template — adjust the horizons to the real timescale of the choice.
The 10-10-10 Rule - Use the 10-year view to check values alignment
Ask: is the 10-year version of this choice consistent with what I actually care about?
The 10-10-10 Rule - Make the day after a miss non-negotiable
The day following any miss is mandatory — that is where the rule does its work.
The Two-Day Rule: Never Skip Twice - Pair the rule with self-compassion, not self-criticism
Respond to a miss with kindness and a plan, which rebounds faster than harsh self-talk.
The Two-Day Rule: Never Skip Twice - Run a structured mastery debrief after each performance
Immediately after any significant attempt, extract what worked before the memory fades.
Mastery Experiences - Review process goal execution separately from outcomes after each performance
Evaluate how well you executed your process goals independently of whether you won or lost.
Process Goals, Made Practical - Shift goal emphasis under adversity
When an outcome goal becomes unachievable mid-competition, shift focus explicitly to process goals.
Process vs. Outcome Goals in Sport and Performance - Redefine what counts as a win
Explicitly count showing up — even imperfectly — as a win, not only full performance.
Celebrating Small Wins
Related concerns
- The Platinum Rule After A Loss
The Platinum Rule — "treat others the way they want to be treated" — is Tony Alessandra’s communication framework that inverts the Golden Rule’s assumption that your own preferences are a reliable guide to others’. It requires first understanding how another person prefers to communicate, receive feedback, and make decisions, then adapting your style to meet them there.
- Committed Action After A Loss
Decide your action in a cool moment so the hot, loss-averse moment cannot hijack it.
Pre-commit to a rule before the loss is live
- The 10 10 10 Rule After A Setback
Suzy Welch's 10-10-10 rule asks you to evaluate a decision through three time horizons: how will I feel about this in 10 minutes, 10 months, and 10 years? It is a heuristic for countering short-term emotional reactions by making long-run consequences more cognitively vivid. Evidence for the technique specifically is limited, but it draws on well-supported research on temporal discounting and affective forecasting.
- The 5 Second Rule After A Loss
Respond to a miss with kindness and a plan, which rebounds faster than harsh self-talk.
Pair the rule with self-compassion, not self-criticism
- The 90 Second Rule After A Loss
Jill Bolte Taylor, in her neuroscience memoir, claimed that the physiological arousal of an emotion cycles through the bloodstream in about 90 seconds — and that if you don’t re-trigger it with thought, it passes. The specific "90 seconds" is a popular claim from a personal account, not a controlled finding; the underlying insight — that emotions are time-limited physiological events that we sustain by ruminating — is well-grounded in emotion science.
- When Reward Prediction Error Reset After Missed Reward
Disappointment is a prediction error in reverse — acknowledge it instead of pushing through it.
Actively manage the dopamine dip when a reward doesn’t arrive
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