minorleagueCEO

I am only as good as what I can teach as the title says, but that is not completely true. I can do quite a few things that I cannot teach, but in order to consider myself good, I have to be able to teach it. Good in this case is the ability to do a job or task so well that I can break something down to its component parts. This allows me to better deal with one-off situations, and generally be more flexible and adaptive. Why does any of that matter? It is my strategy to git gud at something. When I force myself to teach I have to break a job or task down into its finer parts as stated above. As I do that, I start to get an idea of exactly how much I don’t know. Just like with any sport or activity, beginners don’t know enough about a situation to be able to tell what makes something good or not, and usually misattribute the wrong skill as the reason for others being better. Maybe it is the right skill they are picking up on, but the differences in being good are too subtle for a ...