If You Want Become an Expert At Something, Teach it to Someone Else

It seems natural to assume that teaching a skill learning means learning all about it first.

Often, however, the best teachers are the ones who don’t stop learning themselves.

As Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel Mike Kenny explains, the ability to teach isn’t just useful to teachers.

Being able to understand an idea well enough to convey it to others will help you internalize it yourself.

Our bread and butter mission is unconventional warfare.

It implies that were going to be working through proxies.

That means I have to be able to teach.

I need to be able to convey information.

I need to be able to influence diplomatically, because these are partners.

Theyre not subordinates where I say, You do this.

Youve got to win them over.

The important thing is that you approach learning a skill with the mentality of teaching it to others.

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