The Best Coach

Imagine you're trying to hire a new coach. Also imagine that the only information you have to go on is their relevant athletic career.

Would you hire the hall of fame athlete?

Chances are you would.

But you'd probably be wrong.

How about we rephrase it. Who do you think knows more about losing weight: the guy who came out of the womb with chiseled abs and bulging biceps, or the former pudgy guy who is now pretty lean?

Not to bash the work ethic of hall of fame athletes, chances are the worked their asses of to obtain that title. Chances are also pretty good that they also happened to always just be a little bigger, stronger, faster, and their sport just generally came easier to them; they can't really pass that knowledge on to others, because they never had to learn it themselves.

If you want to find the best coach(or professor or manager or...), look for the loser who made themselves pretty damn good.