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• My plan feels solid until I notice it quietly depends on a whole stack of things just going my way
• My whole plan only works if everything goes roughly as expected, and I lie awake aware that one bad surprise
• My whole plan quietly rests on a handful of things I’ve just taken for granted
• My plan only works if a whole chain of things all go right
• I’m about to lock in a plan that feels airtight from the inside

Practices that may help

1. 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
2. Build room for error (margin of safety)
   Plan so that being wrong is survivable, not catastrophic.
   The Psychology of Money, Made Practical
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. Audit plans for scenario inflation
   Before committing to a plan that depends on multiple things going right, count the dependencies.
   The Conjunction Fallacy — When "More Details" Feels More Likely
5. 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
6. Design decisions so they work even if some things go wrong
   Ask: does this plan require everything to go right? If so, redesign it.
   Margin of Safety
7. 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
8. Test your action plan for specificity before relying on it
   Before counting on a plan, check that a stranger could execute it from your written description — if not, it is not specific enough.
   Action Planning
9. Run a premortem before committing
   Imagine the decision has already failed — then ask why.
   Thinking in Bets
10. Run a pre-mortem before committing to a plan
    Imagine the plan has already failed and ask what went wrong.
    Confirmation Bias: Seeing What You Expect to See

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