If you think coaching is a modern invention, you might be surprised to learn that one of the best “coaches” who ever lived spent his days wandering the streets of Athens wearing a simple robe and asking inconvenient questions. Ever heard of the Socratic Method? If so, you might already be connecting the dots. Socrates wasn’t a life coach. He wasn’t a consultant, a mentor, or a teacher in the traditional sense. He was something much more interesting: a master of conversation w