#32 - Book Review: The Coaching Habit / OpenAI Keynote / 5 Powerful Questions / 100 Food Hacks I Learned In Restaurants
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Book Review - The Coaching Habit
This is one of those books I’ve had on my list to read for over a year. I suppose it popped up enough in articles and conversation that I decided to give it a go.
I’m SO glad I did!
While I enjoy reading, I read this book over 3 days - that’s how good it is.
I really enjoyed the author’s beginning premise that the aim is not to inspire you to be a better coach, necessarily, but instead to inspire you to be a better human being. The book is broken down into 7 questions that can guide your conversations:
The Kickstart Question - “What’s on your mind?”
The AWE Question - “And what else?”
The Focus Question - “What’s the real challenge here for you?”
The Foundation Question - “What do you want?”
The Lazy Question - “How can I help?”
The Strategic Question - “If you’re saying Yes to this, what are you saying No to?”
The Learning Question - “What was most useful for you?”
There is certainly value in just being aware of the questions above, but I found tremendous value in reading through the chapters and discovering the logic behind each question.
If you are a leader of people, or just want to improve your conversation game, I can’t recommend this book highly enough!
OpenAI Keynote
OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT) held its first conference a few days ago. CEO Sam Altman gave some interesting perspective on everything they’ve accomplished, as well as the road ahead. Worth a watch!
5 Powerful Questions
I enjoy Colby’s LinkedIn content. This recent post of his has some great questions to evaluate where you are in life, and where you want to go. (This could be especially useful as we head into the close of a year!)
100 Food Hacks I Learned In Restaurants
A little change of pace here.
I recently came across Joshua Weissman’s content while going down a YouTube rabbit hole (he has 8.5 million subscribers!)
This video feels like learning the cheat codes to your favorite video game. No doubt I’m certain you'll come away with at least 1 new thing to try from this.
Words to wrap up:
"My life changed when I became responsible for inventing the life I wanted."
- Nedra Glover Tawwab, “Set Boundaries, Find Peace”