Negative Coaching and its Negative Effects

Remember when you were in school and your teacher told you Mr. Smith in the classroom next door didn’t think you were smart enough to pass that big test, and it got you fired up to prove him wrong and you aced the exam?

Of course you don’t, because it never happened. It’d be absurd. No teacher or school administrator would do that.

Explain to me, then, the reason we still accept it from coaches.

After all, at their heart, they, too, are educators. Still, we largely are OK with our young people being “taught” in a manner that can be so harmful and has so little positive effects as...