Coaching practices for What Am I Missing in Decisions
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- When I decide I just feel a vague unease that I "don’t have enough to go on," but I never pin down what exactly is missing
- I feel completely sure about this decision, which is honestly starting to make me nervous
- Once I’ve chosen, I tally up the best bits of every option I passed on and hold them all against what I picked
- I started writing my decisions down but I never actually go back to close the loop
- I’ve been sitting on something easy for two weeks telling myself I need one more data point, and the truth is I already know enough
Practices that may help
- Log the information you wished you had
In every decision entry, write: what would I want to know that I don’t?
Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time - 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 - Reduce opportunity-cost thinking
Stop calculating what every rejected option "costs" you — it amplifies regret for no gain.
Choice Overload, Made Practical - Run a weekly decision review session
Set aside 20 minutes each week to score past decisions and extract one lesson.
Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time - 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 - Name the values the regret is about
Regret points at a violated value — make the value explicit.
The Regret-Minimization Framework - Classify decisions by reversibility and stakes
Sort decisions into low-stakes/high-stakes and reversible/irreversible before deciding.
Decision Journaling: Learning to Decide Better Over Time - Recognize which decisions to defer or delegate
Not every choice deserves your cognitive best — identify which ones merit serious deliberation.
Choice Overload, Made Practical - 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 - Classify every decision as one-way or two-way before starting
Before applying any decision process, ask: can I reverse this if I am wrong?
The Two-Way Door
Related concerns
- Decision Quality Review
A decision journal is a written record of significant decisions — what you decided, why, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened. It counteracts hindsight bias and outcome bias by preserving your actual reasoning before the outcome arrives, and it creates the only feedback loop that produces real calibration: comparing your predictions to results across many decisions over time.
- How To Stop Second Guessing Decisions
Mentally close off the "undo" option to stop rumination and increase satisfaction.
Treat your decision as more final than it is
- When To Slow Down Decisions
Match deliberation to the cost of being wrong: spend System 2 where reversal is hard.
Slow down for high-stakes, irreversible decisions
- Cost Of Error Decisions
For irreversible decisions, invest in deliberation proportional to the downside — not to your confidence.
Slow down on one-way doors
- Decision Journal
A decision journal is a written record of significant decisions — what you decided, why, what you expected to happen, and what actually happened. It counteracts hindsight bias and outcome bias by preserving your actual reasoning before the outcome arrives, and it creates the only feedback loop that produces real calibration: comparing your predictions to results across many decisions over time.
- Decision Making
Sort decisions into low-stakes/high-stakes and reversible/irreversible before deciding.
Classify decisions by reversibility and stakes
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