The Role of Insight in Coaching

Most coaching conversations are around the precursor to insight, which is called an impasse. An impasse is basically a problem you've tried to solve and failed. The strongest insights seem to be something where you kind of tried to solve a problem and failed over and over. And then now you're trying a new way and all this energy is released. So insights release energy. It's actually the active ingredient in a good movie, a good book, a good Netflix show. You learn languages through moments of insight.