CHAPTER 8
ALIGN YOUR BRAIN
Attention consists of suspending our thought, leaving it detached, empty, and ready to be penetrated . . . waiting, not seeking anything, but ready to receive.
—SIMONE WEIL
A COMMONLY HELD belief is that practice makes perfect and achieving ten thousand hours of practice will grant you mastery. Many studies dispute this.1 Practice makes any performance, including coaching, easier and more effective, but being fully present while coaching is the critical factor to enter the zone of mastery.
To be fully present requires you develop the habit of being physically and mentally aware in the moment to only what is happening in the coaching interaction. Nothing outside the interaction exists. Thoughts may float through your ...
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