The Importance of Perspective in Coaching Athletes

The first book I wrote was called Don't Listen to Your Parents. And the whole concept was around this idea that there's two fundamental truths, right? Every athlete wants to become independent of their parent and be successful, therefore making their parent proud. But what happens in that process as the child gets older, they start moving away from the parent. Wisdom tells us that we have experience and time that is beyond the current state of the other person that we're dealing with or mentoring or coaching or parenting.