How to Find the Right Coaches + Courses
Every tom, dick, and harry is starting a course or a coaching program. Welcome to the goddamn gold rush.
Some are life-changing. Others are a huge waste of your time, money, and potential.
How can you tell the difference? Thread👇
1 The Best Have Integrity
You want someone honest + blunt.
The best make you feel uncomfortable at times (because you're pushing beyond your zone of normal.)
You need to have a LOT of trust from the get-go, so you know you're pursuing the right type of uncomfortable.
2 The Best Are Empathetic
They should care about you and your development more than money, validation, anything else.
Notice how his/her's incentives line up with your success.
A good coach/creator wants to make himself/herself obsolete.
3 The Best Can Go from Shitty -> Great
Pick a person who remembers what it was like to be shitty
You want someone who went from shitty -> great through specific actions + systems.
You also want them to prove they can teach others to go from shitty-> great.
4 The Best Can Speak in Your Language
A great coach = great explainer.
They should be able to tailor their conceptual metaphors to you.
They should be able to understand who you are and teach you based on THAT.
^ Shared backgrounds or an experienced teacher helps with this
5 The Best Rely on Specific KPIs
Coaching that is based on mushiness or feeling as its only metric is entertainment, not growth.
A coach or course should be able to easily prove (over a long enough period of time) the difference they have made in your life
The worst thing you can do is get a bad coach.
Don't base your choice on price. Be Strict in your selection criteria.
Don't take a course or accept a coach because they're cheap.
Coaching is essential to being a "Good Enough Human" in today's world.
You often need multiple coaches in your life.
A diverse petri dish of experts allows you to triangulate your views (h/t @RayDalio).
Even the best are wrong sometimes.
You'll also usually need a different coach to go from bad --> good enough. And from good enough --> great
I'm obviously biased, but if you're looking for life-changing creators + coaches start here:
Building a Second Brain @fortelabs
Write of Passage @david_perell
Emotional Fitness Bootcamp @ndwignall
Still use the criteria above. It's possible they work for me, but not for you
Special mention to @beondeck which I've heard amazing things about.
I'll be an upcoming writing fellow for #ODW1 and doing my research it seems like it may be one of the most transformative programs/courses I've taken yet.
I'll report back.
Additional Reading:
@trengriffin on How to Make Decisions like Ray Dalio (25iq.com/2017/04/28/how…)
@avthars on How to pick Good Teachers (avthar.com/blog/teachers-1)
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