QUESTION:
Of all roles, only a coach can elevate a person to a skill level higher than their own. Everyone else, including masters of their craft—unless they’ve transitioned into teaching—simply plays a supporting role, pulling others toward their own level, though the student’s result still won't come close to that of the master. A coach, however, provides far more than their own personal capability, and with the right student, even more than top-tier masters. Where do you see your webinars fitting into this? After all, a coach understands every internal mechanism and how everything works, yet they don't simply hand that over to the student...
LEE’S RESPONSE:
Oh, come on! By definition, a coach’s job is to train. Where have you ever seen great boxers being coached by someone even greater? More often than not, champions are trained by mediocre practitioners who happen to be world-class psychologists. They understand an athlete’s mindset and know how to shift it toward the inevitability of victory. Meanwhile, the technical side is often handled no better than any other standard coach would.
If a coach has convinced you that they possess some secret knowledge they haven't shared... well, they probably went overboard with the motivation or were just trying to inflate their own ego.
In education, information itself isn’t what matters most; it’s the student’s ability to tune into the wavelength of the material being mastered. That is how students eventually surpass their teachers. That is how progress is made. Otherwise, we would all just be living as poor copies of poor copies of one another.
