Lessons From A Coach
25 Major Life Lessons as My Coaching Practice. 1. Three levels of mastery. We move through three levels of mastery: intellectual, emotional, and physical. We might understand something intellectually, but not have any emotional reaction to it or be able to actually do it. When we do know something at the emotional level, we have an emotional response. This is a simple, but powerful model for thinking about stages of mastery, and it actually parallels Bloom’s Taxonomy. 2. Four classes of experience. Four types of experience as a frame for thinking about what kinds of experience to do more of, and what to do less of: Good for you, good for other people; good for you, sorry for other people, bad for you, good for other people, and sorry for you, bad for other people. 3. 6 basic human needs. We go through cycles of needs, and some seem at odds. Our 6 human needs are certainty, uncertainty, significance, connection, growth, contribution. We need assurance until we are sure, an