Coaching practices for Once I've Decided I Like Something the Upside Looks Huge and the Downside Basically Vanishes and When I Dislike it it Flips the Other Way I Can't Seem to Weigh What Could Go Wrong Separately From How I Already Feel About it

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

• Once I’ve decided I like something, the upside looks huge and the downside basically vanishes
• A shiny opportunity lands and I get so dazzled by the upside that I talk myself right past the one thing about it I know I’ll hate
• I fall hard for an option and then quietly explain away every red flag to keep my favorite alive
• This opportunity feels like such an obvious yes that I’m ready to dive straight in
• There’s a chance in front of me where the worst case is small and survivable

Practices that may help

1. Assess risk and benefit on separate scales before comparing
   Estimate risk and benefit independently — don’t let the same feeling drive both.
   The Affect Heuristic — When Feelings Substitute for Facts
2. Use anti-goals as a decision filter before evaluating opportunities
   Run every major opportunity through your anti-goals list before calculating the upside.
   Anti-Goals: Defining Success by What You Refuse to Accept
3. Define your disqualifiers in advance
   Before evaluating options, decide what would automatically rule one out.
   Inversion: Solve Problems Backward
4. Apply extra scrutiny when a choice feels obviously good
   Positive affect is as reliable a bias-trigger as fear — audit opportunities that feel like obvious wins.
   The Affect Heuristic — When Feelings Substitute for Facts
5. Look for decisions with asymmetric upside — large potential gain, small defined loss
   Seek situations where the worst case is bounded and small while the best case is large and open-ended.
   Expected Value Thinking: Deciding Under Uncertainty
6. Check reversibility before you fear the downside
   Most decisions are reversible; reserve maximum caution for the few that aren’t.
   The Regret-Minimization Framework
7. Reframe the decision around the same reference point
   Decisions flip depending on whether an option is framed as a loss or a gain — so neutralize the frame.
   Loss Aversion, Made Practical
8. Run a premortem before committing
   Imagine the decision has already failed — then ask why.
   Thinking in Bets
9. Reduce opportunity-cost thinking
   Stop calculating what every rejected option "costs" you — it amplifies regret for no gain.
   Choice Overload, Made Practical
10. Distinguish obstacle-confronting from free-dreaming and indulging
    Mental contrasting is different from both pure positive thinking and pure negative worry — it requires holding both futures in mind simultaneously.
    Mental Contrasting and WOOP

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