Master coaches aren't like heads of state. They aren't like captains who steer us across the unmarked sea, or preachers on a pulpit, ringing out the good news. Their personality—their core skill circuit—is to be more like farmers: careful, deliberate cultivators of myelin, like Hans Jensen. They're down-to-earth and disciplined. They possess vast, deep frame works of knowledge, which they apply to the steady, incremental work of growing skill circuits, which they ultimately don't control. Jensen couldn't answer my question because at its heart the question didn't make sense. Is it possible to
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