Coaching practices for Thinking Fast and Slow Made Usable in a New Job

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

• I can eventually figure out what I’m looking at if I get to sit and analyze it, but when the clock’s running I’m far too slow
• I rush the big, costly decisions the same way I rush picking lunch
• I’m trying to tackle the big, advanced stuff but I’m still laboring over the basics every single step, so my head is so jammed with the mechanics that there’s no room left to actually see the bigger picture or make the leaps that matter.
• Half my brain is always busy clutching the errands, the phone number, the thing I mustn’t forget, so there’s barely any left for the actual thinking in front of me
• This snapped into focus instantly, the way the familiar ones do

Practices that may help

1. Thinking, Fast and Slow, Made Usable
   Daniel Kahneman describes two modes of thought: System 1 is fast, automatic, and intuitive; System 2 is slow, effortful, and deliberate. Better decisions usually come from noticing when a problem deserves System 2 and deliberately slowing down — though some popular claims from the book (notably certain priming studies) failed to replicate.
2. Recognition-speed drills
   Flash configurations briefly to force pattern recognition rather than analytical reconstruction.
   Chunking: How Experts See What Beginners Miss
3. Slow down for high-stakes, irreversible decisions
   Match deliberation to the cost of being wrong: spend System 2 where reversal is hard.
   Thinking, Fast and Slow, Made Usable
4. Build chunks so working memory is freed for diffuse connections
   Drill the basics until they are automatic, freeing cognitive resources for higher-level synthesis.
   Focused vs Diffuse Thinking
5. Offload peripheral information to free working memory
   Write things down externally so working memory is free for thinking, not storage.
   Working Memory: How Your Brain Holds Thoughts in Play
6. Override recognition and deliberate when the situation is genuinely novel
   Flag situations that don’t quite fit a familiar pattern and switch from intuitive to analytical processing.
   Recognition-Primed Decision Making
7. Train task-switching to reduce cognitive overhead
   Deliberately practice switching between related tasks to make transitions less costly.
   Working Memory: How Your Brain Holds Thoughts in Play
8. Categorize tasks by cognitive mode, not by topic
   Group tasks by the type of thinking they require — not just by project — to minimize the mental gear-changing between batches.
   Task Batching: Grouping Similar Work to Cut Switching Costs
9. Batch similar tasks
   Group same-mode tasks together so you switch contexts less often.
   Monotasking, Made Practical
10. Rapid classification trials
    Make classification judgments quickly and get immediate feedback to accelerate discrimination learning.
    Perceptual Learning: Training Your Eye Before Your Mind

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