Honestly, the relationship between a word and the concept that it symbolizes is man-made and arbitrary, even among individuals. I don’t think that arguing vs th

Honestly, the relationship between a word and the concept that it symbolizes is man-made and arbitrary, even among individuals. I don’t think that arguing vs the article on the basis of definition alone is going to lead to a fruitful discussion, because there will always be something that can be said of how one activity seems to fit with either of the two (for example, your attribution of the definitions to sports may be from your subjective experience of sports, but maybe coach and coached relationships with others are different), so it might do us all better to just really focus on what the author is trying to say. Coaching is passive, mentoring is so much more actively involved (though I personally find rather odd where the delineation was drawn, and I’m just creeped out by the idea of a mentorship setup now). I get it in your other comment that it helps you set your expectations—but it’s not like these two words are technical jargon with clear meanings in some field of science, so you can’t just take them without nuance.