teaching something is the best way to learn it yourself. when you reside in the role of a student there’s only so much you can learn before you get bored and start losing your edge. it’s just how the brain works – our education system has not yet evolved in accordance with our growing heap of new brain science.
teaching can be the fastest way to take some fresh steps and get unstuck. you learn about words, how to communicate and how to phrase questions, and remind yourself what’s important. and you make some great friends who will admire you for a century. if you’re tutoring or writing, you’re making some money on your own terms. it’s a purely abstract endeavor, you create value with your thoughts and words and movements. when you get a job you’ll have a good opportunity to teach things to the people you work with or do business with. humility is an important part of effective teaching because people often subconsciously decide to not learn from teachers whose attitudes aren’t appropriate. you have to be careful about what you say and how you present yourself in order to make older people feel comfortable with the idea that you knew something they didn’t.
teaching gives you a lot of pride. its what you were designed to do.
