Issue 5: Symptom Management vs. Root Treatment, $100M (Post-Money) Seed Rounds, Fact vs. Meaning, and more.
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Hey Everyone! A lot of coaching work can fall in two buckets (who doesn't love buckets?): symptom management and addressing root causes. I've brought this up a few times this week thanks to a reminder from my friend Jonathan Basker. It helps me as a coach to ask whether a client is looking for help managing the symptoms of something like anxiety because it's so bad or whether they're looking to dig into the deeper issue to get a solution to the root cause. Jonathan put it elegantly to me on Monday, saying something like, "sometimes you call a doctor and you just need some medicine to help you with your heartburn," other times you decide to commit to addressing the underlying issue: your diet and lack of exercise. The former is a bandaid, the latter a much more sustainable (but more challenging) solution.
Issue 5: Symptom Management vs. Root Treatment, $100M (Post-Money) Seed Rounds, Fact vs. Meaning, and more.
Issue 5: Symptom Management vs. Root…
Issue 5: Symptom Management vs. Root Treatment, $100M (Post-Money) Seed Rounds, Fact vs. Meaning, and more.
Hey Everyone! A lot of coaching work can fall in two buckets (who doesn't love buckets?): symptom management and addressing root causes. I've brought this up a few times this week thanks to a reminder from my friend Jonathan Basker. It helps me as a coach to ask whether a client is looking for help managing the symptoms of something like anxiety because it's so bad or whether they're looking to dig into the deeper issue to get a solution to the root cause. Jonathan put it elegantly to me on Monday, saying something like, "sometimes you call a doctor and you just need some medicine to help you with your heartburn," other times you decide to commit to addressing the underlying issue: your diet and lack of exercise. The former is a bandaid, the latter a much more sustainable (but more challenging) solution.