Coaching practices for The View From Above in a New Job
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I can get to that calm, floating, none-of-it-really-matters feeling, but then I just sort of stay up there and nothing in my actual life changes
- I’m about to lock in a plan that feels airtight from the inside
- This one thing has swallowed my whole field of view
- I’m stepping into something completely new to me, and I’ve done so much reading that I feel like an expert
- I’m so buried in the day-to-day firefighting that I just react to whatever’s loudest, and I never get high enough above it to see the pattern underneath
Practices that may help
- The View from Above
The "view from above" is a Stoic contemplative exercise — found throughout Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations — in which you mentally zoom out until your situation is seen from a cosmic scale: the city, the empire, the planet, all of time. It works by psychological distancing, which reliably lowers emotional reactivity in observational research, though the specific Stoic imagery is the delivery vehicle rather than a separately tested protocol. - Return from proportion to action
Close every zoom-out with one proportionate next move — perspective is a tool, not a destination.
The View from Above - Invoke the outside view before committing to any significant plan
Before finalizing a plan or forecast, ask "How did similar things go?" as the first checkpoint.
The Outside View - The spatial zoom-out
Mentally lift yourself out of the room and rise until you see the whole world spread below you.
The View from Above - Defer heavily to base rates when entering a domain where you lack experience
In unfamiliar territory, the class distribution should almost entirely govern the forecast.
The Outside View - Get on the balcony
Regularly step back from the action to see the system — not just your corner of it.
Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical - Listen for what isn’t in the job description
Focus on the texture of day-to-day work, not the official narrative.
Informational Interviews: Career Research That Builds Your Network - The view from above — cosmic perspective
Zoom out to see your situation from a vast distance — then return to act more calmly within it.
Pierre Hadot’s Spiritual Exercises - The Outside View
The outside view, a concept Kahneman developed with Amos Tversky, means stepping back from the specifics of your situation and asking: how did things like this tend to go in the past? It reliably corrects the optimism bias built into narrative-based (inside-view) planning, and the research base — particularly on planning and forecasting accuracy — is substantial. - Spend real time on growth, not just tasks
Regularly leave the weeds and talk about career, skills, and where they’re headed.
Effective One-on-Ones, Made Practical
Related concerns
- The View From Above At Work
The "view from above" is a Stoic contemplative exercise — found throughout Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations — in which you mentally zoom out until your situation is seen from a cosmic scale: the city, the empire, the planet, all of time. It works by psychological distancing, which reliably lowers emotional reactivity in observational research, though the specific Stoic imagery is the delivery vehicle rather than a separately tested protocol.
- The View From Above When Starting Out
The "view from above" is a Stoic contemplative exercise — found throughout Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations — in which you mentally zoom out until your situation is seen from a cosmic scale: the city, the empire, the planet, all of time. It works by psychological distancing, which reliably lowers emotional reactivity in observational research, though the specific Stoic imagery is the delivery vehicle rather than a separately tested protocol.
- Fly On Wall Perspective
Mentally lift yourself out of the room and rise until you see the whole world spread below you.
The spatial zoom-out
- Outside View
The outside view, a concept Kahneman developed with Amos Tversky, means stepping back from the specifics of your situation and asking: how did things like this tend to go in the past? It reliably corrects the optimism bias built into narrative-based (inside-view) planning, and the research base — particularly on planning and forecasting accuracy — is substantial.
- The Outside View During A Big Change
The outside view, a concept Kahneman developed with Amos Tversky, means stepping back from the specifics of your situation and asking: how did things like this tend to go in the past? It reliably corrects the optimism bias built into narrative-based (inside-view) planning, and the research base — particularly on planning and forecasting accuracy — is substantial.
- The Outside View When Burned Out
The outside view, a concept Kahneman developed with Amos Tversky, means stepping back from the specifics of your situation and asking: how did things like this tend to go in the past? It reliably corrects the optimism bias built into narrative-based (inside-view) planning, and the research base — particularly on planning and forecasting accuracy — is substantial.
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