At the end of every session I fill in the numbers, and the numbers feel solid in a way people never do. But these are teenagers, not data points, and I can feel myself flattening them into rows on a sheet. Numbers don't argue back or have a bad week, and that is exactly why I keep hiding in them.
More people experience this than they realize.
You keep turning the people you coach into numbers because numbers feel safer to trust.
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.