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When you evaluate before you finish observing, your brain replaces incoming data with expected data. You stop seeing what is there and start seeing what you already believe.
Temporarily releasing the need for certainty improves the quality of your observations.
Evaluation has its place — after you have thoroughly observed.
When you become genuinely curious about something judgment tends to fall away on its own.
Recording what you expect to happen and comparing to what actually happens is the only reliable method for calibrating judgment. Without a written record, hindsight bias rewrites your memory of what you believed, making genuine learning from experience impossible.
When evaluating past decisions reconstruct the context that existed at the time.