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• I’ve got a strong gut feeling about this, but I’m honestly not sure I can trust it here
• My confidence comes straight from how good a story I can tell myself about this particular case, and the more vivid the story the surer I get
• I’ll declare I’m totally sure about something, but the instant I imagine actually putting real money on it my stomach tightens
• I’m stepping into something completely new to me, and I’ve done so much reading that I feel like an expert
• I feel completely sure about this decision, which is honestly starting to make me nervous

Practices that may help

1. Know when intuition is unreliable
   Expert intuition is valid only when the domain has regular patterns and you’ve had feedback-rich experience in it.
   Recognition-Primed Decision Making
2. Anchor your confidence level on base rates, not gut feel
   Start your confidence estimate from the historical hit rate for this type of prediction, not from how confident you feel.
   Calibration Training
3. Put stakes on your beliefs — even hypothetically
   Ask: "Would I bet on this?" to separate genuine confidence from performed confidence.
   The Scout Mindset
4. Defer heavily to base rates when entering a domain where you lack experience
   In unfamiliar territory, the class distribution should almost entirely govern the forecast.
   The Outside View
5. Ask 'What am I missing?' before major decisions
   Treat a confident feeling before a high-stakes decision as a cue to check what your competence map is omitting.
   Circle of Competence
6. 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
7. Practice probability calibration
   Regularly make probabilistic predictions and track your accuracy across many of them.
   Hindsight Bias: Why Everything Seems Obvious in Retrospect
8. Practice probabilistic calibration by tracking your predictions
   Assign explicit probability estimates to your predictions and track whether they come true at the right rate.
   Base-Rate Neglect: Why We Ignore the Odds
9. Use specific, credible encouragement (social persuasion)
   Targeted feedback from people you trust nudges what you believe you can attempt.
   Self-Efficacy: Building the Belief You Can
10. Actively seek feedback that could prove you wrong
    Ask the people most likely to see your errors — not the people most likely to affirm you.
    The Dunning-Kruger Effect, Understood Clearly

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