Coaching practices for The Order This Goes in Feels So Natural I've Never Once Questioned it and I Want to Know What Opens Up If I Just Flip the Whole Thing Do the Last Part First Let the Customer Be the One Who Provides Run it Backwards
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For The Order This Goes in Feels So Natural I've Never Once Questioned it and I Want to Know What Opens Up If I Just Flip the Whole Thing Do the Last Part First Let the Customer Be the One Who Provides Run it Backwards, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- The order this goes in feels so natural I’ve never once questioned it, and I want to know what opens up if I just flip the whole thing
- Whatever sits at the top of my list or my menu is what I end up doing on autopilot, and right now the important thing is buried halfway down where I never get to it
- I’ve been chewing on the same question
- Every single step felt like no big deal at the time, and somehow I look up and I’m boxed in
- I like to get straight to business, and with some people that lands as cold and rushed
Practices that may help
- Reverse and Rearrange
Ask: what if the sequence were inverted, the roles were swapped, or the normal order were reversed?
SCAMPER: A Systematic Creativity Technique - Redesign option order to exploit position bias
People disproportionately choose options listed first or last — move the best option there.
Choice Architecture, Made Practical - Reverse the question to expose hidden assumptions
Restate the problem from the opposite direction to see what you assumed.
Inversion: Solve Problems Backward - Watch for one-way door creep
Recognize when a series of small reversible decisions has created an irreversible position.
The Two-Way Door - Match task-first vs. relationship-first opening
Open the way your audience prefers — some need rapport first, others need the agenda first.
The Platinum Rule - Run the loop until it is smooth
Repeat explain–diagnose–relearn until you can explain the whole thing without snags.
The Feynman Technique, Step by Step - Deliberately slow down at conceptual transitions
Pause, name the transition, and check understanding before moving to the next idea.
The Curse of Knowledge: Why Experts Struggle to Teach - Explain the mechanism, not the function
When you think you understand something, try to explain how it works step-by-step — not just what it does.
Illusion of Explanatory Depth: You Know Less Than You Think - Work backwards from what the learner needs to do
Start with the decision or action the learner must take, then trace back only to the knowledge that serves it.
The Curse of Knowledge: Why Experts Struggle to Teach - Design decisions to be reversible where possible
Before accepting that a decision is one-way, ask whether you can redesign it to be two-way.
The Two-Way Door
Related concerns
- Building Reversibility
Before accepting that a decision is one-way, ask whether you can redesign it to be two-way.
Design decisions to be reversible where possible
- Explain To A Novice
Before the real audience, explain to someone who actually doesn’t know.
Find a genuine novice to test your explanation on
- How To Sequence Teaching
Start with the decision or action the learner must take, then trace back only to the knowledge that serves it.
Work backwards from what the learner needs to do
- How To Solve Problems Backward
Inversion is the mental model — popularized by Charlie Munger via the mathematician Carl Jacobi’s "invert, always invert" — of approaching a problem from its opposite end: instead of asking how to succeed, ask what would guarantee failure, then systematically avoid it. It is a reasoning heuristic, not a studied intervention, but it reliably surfaces risks and assumptions that forward thinking misses.
- Reversibility Test
Most decisions are reversible; reserve maximum caution for the few that aren’t.
Check reversibility before you fear the downside
- The Two Way Door When Starting Out
Before accepting that a decision is one-way, ask whether you can redesign it to be two-way.
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