Coaching practices for Track Your Prior Beliefs

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• After things play out I always feel like I "knew it all along," but I honestly can’t tell if I actually changed my mind or just rewrote my own memory to match how it turned out.
• I want to know whether my mind is actually anchored to reality or just to itself, and the honest test is to look back: can I name a real belief I once held that evidence later changed
• I’ve already landed on the harsh thing I believe about myself
• I’ve held this view of someone for so long that it’s become self-confirming
• I know the harsh belief about myself isn’t the whole truth, but knowing that hasn’t moved the needle

Practices that may help

1. Maintain a belief-tracking log with timestamps
   Record your beliefs and confidence levels before evidence arrives, so you can see whether you actually updated.
   Confirmation Bias: Seeing What You Expect to See
2. Review past beliefs for what evidence did and didn’t move them
   Look back at past beliefs and ask: what would have changed my mind then, and did I let it?
   Falsification Thinking
3. Testing a core belief with historical evidence
   Once you have a core belief, survey all your history for evidence that contradicts it.
   The Downward Arrow: Uncovering the Core Beliefs Behind Distress
4. Slow the reflexive loop
   Your current beliefs shape which data you select, reinforcing themselves — interrupt this loop deliberately.
   The Ladder of Inference
5. The positive data log for core belief repair
   Keep a daily log of experiences that contradict your negative core belief — however small.
   The Downward Arrow: Uncovering the Core Beliefs Behind Distress
6. State your prior probability before seeing the evidence
   Before looking at any data, commit to a numerical estimate of how likely something is.
   Bayesian Thinking: How to Update Beliefs Rationally
7. Behavioral experiments to test core beliefs in vivo
   Design a real-world action that tests the core belief, then observe what actually happens.
   The Downward Arrow: Uncovering the Core Beliefs Behind Distress
8. Actively seek disconfirming evidence
   Deliberately look for evidence that your current belief is wrong.
   Superforecasting
9. Reviewing the Results and Extracting the Learning
   Explicitly connect what happened to what you believed — and update the belief accordingly.
   Behavioral Experiments: Testing Beliefs in the Real World
10. Actively seek evidence that would disconfirm your belief
    Ask: "What would change my mind?" and then look for exactly that.
    Bayesian Thinking: How to Update Beliefs Rationally

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