okay so like. uh. this feels like an embarrassing question to ask but. what should i do with my life
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Help people cry, duh.
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hmm honestly i don't think i'm good enough at it yet. and something feels weird now about making it my main thing. like there's a reason i haven't executed on this
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Dude you got me to cry out such deep trauma I wasn't even aware of it, and awareness of my shadow is my whole deal.
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that was pretty good huh
idk i've had a lot worse success with some other people though. i guess i don't have a clear sense of what like success % is reasonable to expect
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success % is maybe not the way to think about it
how much difference ~coaching~ makes is a power-law thing, both in terms of which clients and in terms of which sessions
one client I couldn't help with his procrastination at all, but I nudged him into getting a dream internship!
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Interesting, I might have a blindspot but I can't imagine another metric beyond consistently bringing in the desired results
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Seems like if I'm not doing that then I'm not doing the job
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i guess for me there's a question of like what the client's expectations are. to the extent that the client is expecting me to help them make real progress i actually want to do a good job helping them with that and i would feel bad about failing
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but i could imagine having a conversation early on that sets a different kind of expectation, like "ultimately i cannot control your progress and we are just gonna explore together and see what happens"
...except i feel way less comfortable *charging* for that
I know we have different modalities so this may not work for you, but I hold my sales calls in a way where I'm kind of testing to see if me and the person are a good fit. If I don't solidly feel like I can help the person by the end of the call, I don't ask for a signup.
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and for the kind of coaching you gave me, I'd definitely pay for it.
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