When I first started as a coach, I believed in my "brilliance" - that I could change, influence, teach, and move all players to greatness. It was my sense of invincibility combined with an incredibly over-inflated sense of personal value that drove my ego to embrace the reality that I could motivate all that heard my words. Time and truth can be cruel taskmasters. I learned that I did not have the premium on brilliance nor did I have the patent on wisdom. In fact, the irony