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Debrief it like it was a friend's

Four questions within 48 hours. Then do the fourth one.

SPWe reviewed the research on it.Setbacks and coming back

Hand-drawn diagram of framework 183, Debrief it like it was a friend's: Four questions within 48 hours. Then do the fourth one.
Framework 183 · in one look
How to use it

Within 48 hours, write it in the third person and answer four questions: what was supposed to happen, what actually happened, why the gap (one cause you control), what's the one change. Debrief wins the same way. Structured debriefs improved performance by about 20–25%.

How sure we are

S Evidence: strong. Large trials or many studies, pointing the same way.

P Evidence: promising. Good studies, but small or few. Use it and keep checking.

Sources

Tannenbaum & Cerasoli 2013 (meta-analysis, 46 samples) · Eskreis-Winkler & Fishbach 2019 (people learn less from their own failures; method since challenged).

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