Coaching practices for I'm About to Bet a Big Plan on the Way Things Have Always Worked and a Quiet Voice is Asking Whether the Ground Rules Here Could Just Shift Out From Under Me the Way They Have Before Right When I Was Counting on Them Holding

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• I’m about to bet a big plan on the way things have always worked, and a quiet voice is asking whether the ground rules here could just shift out from under me
• My plan feels solid until I notice it quietly depends on a whole stack of things just going my way
• My whole plan quietly rests on a handful of things I’ve just taken for granted
• I’m about to lock in a plan that feels airtight from the inside
• My whole plan only works if everything goes roughly as expected, and I lie awake aware that one bad surprise

Practices that may help

1. Check whether the rules of your domain are actually stable
   Before applying any probability model, ask whether the rules governing outcomes could change mid-game.
   The Ludic Fallacy: When You Mistake Real Life for a Game
2. Name the assumptions that must hold for the plan to work
   Every plan rests on assumptions — list them and ask how likely each one is.
   Margin of Safety
3. Map and stress-test your key assumptions
   Before executing, list the assumptions the plan depends on — then ask which ones would kill it if wrong.
   Red Teaming: Stress-Testing Plans Before They Fail
4. Invoke the outside view before committing to any significant plan
   Before finalizing a plan or forecast, ask "How did similar things go?" as the first checkpoint.
   The Outside View
5. Build room for error (margin of safety)
   Plan so that being wrong is survivable, not catastrophic.
   The Psychology of Money, Made Practical
6. Check the outside view before trusting the inside view
   Ask how similar situations have gone before trusting your story about this specific situation.
   Thinking in Bets
7. Translate beliefs into bets to reveal your true confidence
   Would you bet $100 on that belief at even odds? The answer often reveals the gap between claimed and actual confidence.
   Bayesian Thinking: How to Update Beliefs Rationally
8. Deliberately invoke the outside view for important decisions
   For any high-stakes prediction, force yourself to start with how things typically go, not how your situation feels.
   Base-Rate Neglect: Why We Ignore the Odds
9. 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
10. Identify and challenge the paradigm the system rests on
    Locate the shared belief about how things work that makes the current system seem natural — and question it.
    Leverage Points

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