Book Byte: “The Coaching Habit” by Michael Bungay Stanier

Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever

📣 Curious Quotes from the Author:

To build an effective new habit, you need five essential components: a reason, a trigger, a micro-habit, effective practice, and a plan.

So think less about what your habit can do for you, and more about how this new habit will help a person or people you care about.

Resilient systems build in fail-safes so that when something breaks down, the next step to recover is obvious. Make your habit a resilient system.

“If you had to pick one of these to focus on, which one here would be the real challenge for you?”

“This is why, in a nutshell, advice is overrated. I can tell you something, and it’s got a limited chance of making its way into your brain’s hippocampus, the region that encodes memory. If I can ask you a question and you generate the answer yourself, the odds increase substantially.”

“The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”

“If this were a haiku rather than a book, it would read: Tell less and ask more. Your advice is not as good As you think it is.”