Coaching practices for Trust Intuition Decisions

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

• I’ve got a strong gut feeling about this, but I’m honestly not sure I can trust it here
• I feel completely sure about this, and a quiet part of me knows that’s exactly when I’ve been most wrong before
• I feel completely sure about this decision, which is honestly starting to make me nervous
• Under all this pressure to please people and react, I’m about to make a call that I already sense doesn’t square with who I actually want to be
• An answer pops into my head instantly and feels so obviously right that I just go with it, and only later do I realize I never actually thought it through

Practices that may help

1. Know when intuition is unreliable
   Expert intuition is valid only when the domain has regular patterns and you’ve had feedback-rich experience in it.
   Recognition-Primed Decision Making
2. Slow down on one-way doors
   For irreversible decisions, invest in deliberation proportional to the downside — not to your confidence.
   The Two-Way Door
3. Ask 'What am I missing?' before major decisions
   Treat a confident feeling before a high-stakes decision as a cue to check what your competence map is omitting.
   Circle of Competence
4. Use the 10-year view to check values alignment
   Ask: is the 10-year version of this choice consistent with what I actually care about?
   The 10-10-10 Rule
5. Notice which system is driving
   Before deciding, ask whether this is a System 1 (snap) or System 2 (effortful) problem.
   Thinking, Fast and Slow, Made Usable
6. Move fast on two-way doors
   On reversible decisions, decide with 70% of the information you wish you had — then adjust.
   The Two-Way Door
7. Check whether your judgment is tracking affect, not the target attribute
   When a decision "just feels right," ask whether the feeling is about the actual question or about your current emotional state.
   Attribute Substitution: When Your Brain Answers a Different Question
8. Stay inside for high-stakes, irreversible decisions
   Reserve your autonomous judgment for decisions within your circle; get help for the rest.
   Circle of Competence
9. Judge decisions by the process, not the result
   A good decision that produces a bad outcome is still a good decision.
   Expected Value Thinking: Deciding Under Uncertainty
10. Resolving a decision with two competing values
    When two values both apply, use your ranked priority to resolve the tension rather than freeze.
    Values Card Sort

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