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Wisdom about coaching.
What people have learned about coaching the hard way, and what the classics said about it first.
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Community rules
- Speak from experience. Say what you lived and what you learned. Advice without a story is easy to ignore.
- Be kind to the person. Disagree with an idea as much as you like. Never with someone’s worth.
- Not a substitute for care. Nothing here is medical, legal or financial advice. In crisis, reach out to local services.
- No selling. No promotion, referral links or pitching your course.
From the library
Let each man direct himself first to what is proper; then let him teach others.
Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not.
Therefore the sage manages affairs without doing anything, and conveys his instructions without the use of speech.
The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.
What other men (thus) teach, I also teach. The violent and strong do not die their natural death. I will make this the basis of my teaching.
Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.
Then I saw, and considered it well: I looked upon it, and received instruction.
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend to know understanding.
A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Poverty and shame shall be to him that refuseth instruction: but he that regardeth reproof shall be honoured.
When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.