Coaching practices for 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 by the Time I'm Doing the Math on How Great it Could Be I've Already Buried the Dealbreaker Under but the Payoff Though

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

• 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
• There’s a chance in front of me where the worst case is small and survivable
• This opportunity feels like such an obvious yes that I’m ready to dive straight in
• I’m excited about this plan and so committed to it that I can’t honestly see what might sink it
• I fall hard for an option and then quietly explain away every red flag to keep my favorite alive

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. Run a premortem before committing
   Imagine the decision has already failed — then ask why.
   Thinking in Bets
5. Define your disqualifiers in advance
   Before evaluating options, decide what would automatically rule one out.
   Inversion: Solve Problems Backward
6. Yellow hat: find genuine value and best-case scenarios
   Actively search for why the idea could succeed and what value it would create — the yellow hat requires optimism to be evidence-based, not cheerleading.
   Six Thinking Hats, Made Practical
7. Name trade-off anti-goals: conditions that come bundled with attractive outcomes
   Many desirable outcomes come packaged with specific costs — name the hidden costs as anti-goals before you commit.
   Anti-Goals: Defining Success by What You Refuse to Accept
8. The premortem (imagine the project already failed)
   Before starting, assume the plan has already failed and ask why — then fix it now.
   Premeditatio Malorum, in Depth
9. Shrink the felt distance to the future reward
   We discount distant rewards steeply — so make the future payoff feel closer and concrete.
   Delayed Gratification, Made Practical
10. Distinguish sunk costs from future opportunity costs
    What you’ve already spent is irrelevant; what you’ll give up going forward is the only cost that matters.
    Opportunity Cost Thinking: What You Give Up When You Choose

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