Coaching practices for I Trust My Favorite Framework So Completely That I Apply it Everywhere Without Checking and Lately It's Been Quietly Steering Me Wrong I Keep Forgetting It's Just a Simplification and I Have No Idea Where it Stops Matching the Actual Situation in Front of Me

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• I trust my favorite framework so completely that I apply it everywhere without checking, and lately it’s been quietly steering me wrong
• I’m reaching for a framework that worked great somewhere else and dropping it onto this situation, and a part of me isn’t sure the two cases are actually the same kind of thing underneath
• I keep getting blindsided by the same kind of situation
• I keep telling myself "it has to be this way" and "that’s just not an option," and I’ve never once stopped to write down those rules and ask whether the problem actually imposed them or whether I just assumed them.
• There’s this thing I’m treating as obviously true and building everything on top of

Practices that may help

1. Constantly distinguish the map from the territory
   A model is a simplification — know precisely where yours breaks down.
   Mental Models: Charlie Munger’s Latticework Approach
2. Question whether the category you’re reasoning from actually fits
   Before applying a model or framework, verify that the category it was built on genuinely matches your situation.
   The Ludic Fallacy: When You Mistake Real Life for a Game
3. Conduct premortems on your past recognition failures
   Review cases where pattern recognition led you wrong to find the shared structural feature that fools you.
   Recognition-Primed Decision Making
4. Make your constraints explicit before solving
   Write out every assumption and rule you are treating as fixed — most problem-solvers carry invisible constraints they never surface.
   Constraint Relaxation: Escaping the Walls You Built Yourself
5. Use Socratic questioning to test each belief
   Interrogate every claim with “how do I know this is true?” until only bedrock remains.
   First-Principles Thinking, Made Usable
6. Hold multiple maps simultaneously
   For complex situations, develop two or three competing models and check which fits better.
   The Map Is Not the Territory
7. Separate facts from assumptions explicitly
   Sort what you actually know from what you’re assuming, in two visible columns.
   First-Principles Thinking, Made Usable
8. Override recognition and deliberate when the situation is genuinely novel
   Flag situations that don’t quite fit a familiar pattern and switch from intuitive to analytical processing.
   Recognition-Primed Decision Making
9. Distrust easy fluency
   Treat "this feels obviously right" as a flag to check, not a signal to proceed.
   Thinking, Fast and Slow, Made Usable
10. Approaching a familiar situation with fresh eyes
    Before entering a recurring conversation or task, set aside your established conclusions and look again.
    Pu: Taoist Simplicity and the Uncarved Block

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