Coaching practices for I'm All in on This Plan and Can Barely Make Myself Imagine it Going Wrong and When I Do Force it I Dream Up Dramatic Disasters Instead of the Boring Ordinary Way Things Like This Usually Quietly Fall Apart

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

• I’m all-in on this plan and can barely make myself imagine it going wrong
• I’m all in on this plan and the success story in my head is so vivid I can already taste it
• I’m about to commit to this plan and on paper it looks solid, but a quiet part of me suspects I’m too sold on it to see the holes
• When I ask myself "what could go wrong with this plan," I either draw a blank or come up with one vague worry
• My plan only works if a whole chain of things all go right

Practices that may help

1. Run a pre-mortem from the outside-view perspective
   Imagine the project has failed — then ask which base-rate failure type caused it.
   The Outside View
2. Run a pre-mortem to interrupt forward narrative construction
   Before committing to a plan, imagine it failed completely — then generate the most plausible story of why.
   The Narrative Fallacy: Why We Can’t Stop Making Stories
3. 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
4. Run the basic pre-mortem
   Assume the plan failed, then have everyone write down why.
   The Pre-Mortem: Imagine It Already Failed
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. Run a premortem before committing
   Imagine the decision has already failed — then ask why.
   Thinking in Bets
9. Run a premortem before committing
   Imagine the project has already failed and work backwards to find why.
   The Planning Fallacy — Why Your Estimates Are Always Wrong
10. Combine mental contrasting with an if–then plan (MCII)
    Fantasize about success, then vividly imagine the key obstacle, then write the if–then — the sequence matters.
    If–Then Planning, Made Practical

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