Coaching practices for Thinking Fast and Slow Made Usable with My Team

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• I rush the big, costly decisions the same way I rush picking lunch
• 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’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.
• On my own I only know so much about each piece of this, and when the team brainstorms together the loudest first idea anchors everyone
• My team just executes whatever I hand them and never pushes back or brings me a better idea

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. 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
3. Recognition-speed drills
   Flash configurations briefly to force pattern recognition rather than analytical reconstruction.
   Chunking: How Experts See What Beginners Miss
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. Run a structured team morphological session
   The method is most powerful when multiple perspectives populate the dimensions and values.
   Morphological Analysis, Made Practical
6. Challenge assumptions and invite new thinking
   Actively encourage your team to question old ways and generate new approaches.
   Transformational Leadership, Made Practical
7. Lead from the strategic thinking domain — absorb and analyze information
   People strong in strategic thinking keep the team focused on what could be, not just what is.
   Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical
8. 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
9. Parallel thinking drill: all hats in sequence for a real decision
   Run a real pending decision through all six hats in sequence to experience the full method before adapting it.
   Six Thinking Hats, Made Practical
10. Work at a dramatically different speed
    Do the stuck task ten times faster or ten times slower — the speed change changes the output.
    Oblique Strategies, Made Practical

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