There is a big market for cheating in our mid-21st Century world. Frankly, we have all done some cheating in our life. These are what we identify as Soft Cheats—accompanied by Soft Lies. There are of course the Hard Cheats and the Hard Lies. How do we handle soft and hard cheats as coaches?

Kevin Weitz, Psy.D. and William Bergquist, Ph.D. To recognize superior expertise would require people to have already a surfeit of expertise themselves. David Dunning (2012) There is a growing body of knowledge coming out of psychology and cognitive science that you have no clue why you act the way you do. David McRaney (2012) In our previous essay on “the …

Experts are in trouble. And our whole society is in trouble. We don’t know what to believe and our experts often seem to have only a tenuous grasp on reality. These concerns are societal products of late 20th and early 21st Century thought. I would also note that there is a much earlier source: Plato's allegory of the cave.

Coaching the whole person requires a “whole coach.” Interdisciplinarity is required—this is part of the job description for a professional coach.

What is required for someone to be generative? What do we need to engage in deep caring?

Las Vegas is often represented as the premier (and perhaps first) exemplification of what is now called a postmodern perspective on life.