What Coaches and Mentors Can Learn from The Science of Getting Rich
Someone you coach who measures their own progress mainly against a peer's success, rather than by their own genuine growth, is caught in the scarcity mindset this framework asks a coach to help them move past.
The whole book, compressed
This edition works through 4 core lessons — take them one at a time, not all at once.
What's different for your conditions
Tap whichever ones sound like you. Nothing here is sent or saved — it's just for your own noticing.
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The core lessons, applied to you
From comparison to genuine progress
Someone who measures their progress mainly against a peer's achievements tends to make decisions (avoiding a path where a peer is already ahead, chasing whichever measure a peer is winning on) that don't actually serve their own growth.
Someone you coach avoids a genuinely useful next step because a peer is already further along in that specific area, protecting a comparison rather than pursuing their own progress.
The next time someone you coach frames their progress by comparison to a peer, ask what they'd choose instead if only their own growth mattered.
Helping someone hold a definite picture of their goal
Someone without a specific, self-chosen goal tends to drift toward whatever is easiest to measure or most visible to others; helping them articulate one concrete aim of their own channels their effort more effectively.
Someone without a clearly defined goal treats each session as disconnected from any larger direction, and loses momentum once the immediate task is done.
Help someone you coach state one specific, one-sentence goal for this month, in their own words.
Modeling efficient effort with your own current resources
Modeling full engagement with the resources actually available to you, rather than expressing frustration about what's missing, teaches someone you coach that progress is possible from wherever they currently stand.
Identify one area of your own coaching practice you've been doing at less than your best while wishing for better resources, and bring full attention to it now.
Gratitude and conveying genuine momentum
How you talk about someone's progress, whether emphasizing what's still lacking or genuine forward movement, shapes their motivation more than the specific outcome itself.
Encouraging healthy ambition and helping someone move past a comparison-driven mindset aren't opposites — genuine progress toward their own definite goal is usually the more durable motivator once comparison is set aside.
Name one thing, honestly
Think of someone you coach who measures themselves mainly against a peer. What might change if they focused instead on their own definite goal?
Good. Now look back at the "Try this" line under whichever lesson feels most connected to what you just wrote, and treat that as this week's actual assignment — not all 4 at once.
The practices from this edition
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Run this for seven days
Identify one area of your own coaching practice you've been doing at less than your best while wishing for better resources, and bring full attention to it now.