[HN Gopher] Coaching Paradox
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       Coaching Paradox
        
       Author : enigmatic02
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2021-10-22 04:20 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | Jensson wrote:
       | > At the top tier of just about any sort of endeavor, you'll find
       | that the performers have coaches. Pianists, orators and athletes
       | all have coaches.
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       | I'm not sure this is true for all fields. Do chess masters have
       | coaches? Do famous novel writers have coaches? Do top scientists
       | have coaches? Maybe some, but it doesn't seem to be a staple.
        
         | smitty1e wrote:
         | Novelists have editors.
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         | But the real distinction that jumps out is cardinality. Most of
         | the coached people are individual producers, or members of
         | smaller teams. Not captains of industry.
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         | But even captains of industry tend to have spouses or spiritual
         | advisors or trainers of some sort.
        
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