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Coaching Through Questions and Small Experiments
Use questions, small experiments and honest feedback to find a next step that works for you.
Coaching Through Questions and Small Experiments
Coaching can help you explore a question, try a small experiment and notice what happens. You choose the direction and decide which suggestions to act on.
The Three Levers
- Constraints: shape behavior (time caps, reps, limited tools).
- Questions: reveal assumptions; unlock self-generated insight.
- Feedback: immediate, specific, behavior-level.
Design Like a Coach
- Define the target behavior (e.g., 60 minutes of uninterrupted writing).
- Try a constraint that makes the next step easier (a timer, fewer distractions or an outline).
- Insert checkpoints (15/30/60) with one question each.
A Socratic Session
- 0–5 min: "If this session ended perfectly, what would exist?"
- 15 min: "What’s the blocker you can remove in 60 seconds?"
- 30 min: "If you could only keep one part, which is it?"
- 60 min: "What will make the next session 10% better?"
Ancient Roots
- Socrates: questions as chisels.
- Stoics: practice over precept.
- Musashi: one thousand days of training; ten thousand of refinement.
Ritual
- Run a 60-minute constrained session today with the four checkpoints.
- Write the one insight that changed your behavior.
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