Lessons tagged “judgment”
6 published lessons with this tag.
Premature judgment distorts perception
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.
Suspend the need to be right
Temporarily releasing the need for certainty improves the quality of your observations.
Judgment is useful after observation is complete
Evaluation has its place — after you have thoroughly observed.
Curiosity replaces judgment naturally
When you become genuinely curious about something judgment tends to fall away on its own.
Track your predictions
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.
Reconstruct context before making judgments
When evaluating past decisions reconstruct the context that existed at the time.