Coaching practices for The Framing Effect When Starting Out
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- I keep walking into negotiations and letting the other side set the baseline first, and then I spend the whole conversation fighting uphill from their numbers
- Every time I restart I’m all fired up and sure this time is different, but a couple weeks in the buzz wears off and I’m right back where I was
- This option suddenly feels obviously right and I can’t tell if it actually is or if it was just sold to me in a flattering way
- I lead straight in with my pitch and watch people’s guard go up before I’ve finished a sentence
- Whatever happens automatically when I don’t decide is usually what ends up winning, and I keep letting inertia pick for me
Practices that may help
- The Framing Effect
The framing effect is the finding that how a choice is presented — as a gain or a loss, a glass half full or half empty — changes which option people pick, even when the underlying facts are identical. It’s a well-replicated decision-making effect rooted in loss aversion, and it’s why reframing an offer can change the answer without changing the substance. - Set the reference point before you introduce the loss
Loss is always measured from a reference point — who sets that point controls the framing.
The Loss Frame: How Framing Shapes Decisions - Fresh Start Framing: Engineering Your Own Clean Slate
Fresh start framing is the deliberate use of psychological separation from past failures to motivate renewed goal pursuit. The underlying mechanism — documented by Hengchen Dai, Katherine Milkman, and Jason Riis — is that temporal landmarks make people feel like a "new self" untainted by past failure, which lowers the weight of prior setbacks. The insight is that you can engineer this separation deliberately, not only at calendar landmarks. - Beware the false start: a clean slate without a system changes nothing
Fresh start framing provides motivation; without system changes, the same conditions produce the same results.
Fresh Start Framing: Engineering Your Own Clean Slate - The Loss Frame: How Framing Shapes Decisions
Yes, and substantially. Prospect theory (Kahneman & Tversky) established that people feel losses about twice as intensely as equivalent gains, so a message framed around what you stand to lose tends to be more motivating than one framed around what you stand to gain — especially for risk-averse decisions. The effect is real and well-replicated, though its size depends on the stakes, the audience, and the domain. - Spot the frame being used on you
Re-describe a choice in the opposite frame to see what you actually think.
The Framing Effect - Channel attention to the relevant concept before the ask
Briefly focus the audience on a concept that makes your core message naturally follow.
Pre-Suasion, Made Practical - Set the default deliberately
Whatever happens if no one chooses is a powerful frame — choose it on purpose.
The Framing Effect - Lead with the answer, not the build-up
State your conclusion or recommendation first, then provide the supporting evidence.
The Minto Pyramid Principle - Frame the attribute positively
"75% lean" beats "25% fat" — the same fact, framed by its better-sounding attribute.
The Framing Effect
Related concerns
- The Framing Effect When Burned Out
The framing effect is the finding that how a choice is presented — as a gain or a loss, a glass half full or half empty — changes which option people pick, even when the underlying facts are identical. It’s a well-replicated decision-making effect rooted in loss aversion, and it’s why reframing an offer can change the answer without changing the substance.
- Reference Point Framing
Loss is always measured from a reference point — who sets that point controls the framing.
Set the reference point before you introduce the loss
- Spot The Framing
Re-describe a choice in the opposite frame to see what you actually think.
Spot the frame being used on you
- The Framing Effect At Work
The framing effect is the finding that how a choice is presented — as a gain or a loss, a glass half full or half empty — changes which option people pick, even when the underlying facts are identical. It’s a well-replicated decision-making effect rooted in loss aversion, and it’s why reframing an offer can change the answer without changing the substance.
- The Framing Effect In A New Job
The framing effect is the finding that how a choice is presented — as a gain or a loss, a glass half full or half empty — changes which option people pick, even when the underlying facts are identical. It’s a well-replicated decision-making effect rooted in loss aversion, and it’s why reframing an offer can change the answer without changing the substance.
- Action Framing Decision
The framing effect is the finding that how a choice is presented — as a gain or a loss, a glass half full or half empty — changes which option people pick, even when the underlying facts are identical. It’s a well-replicated decision-making effect rooted in loss aversion, and it’s why reframing an offer can change the answer without changing the substance.
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