And you’ll have some fun.
This post originally appeared on theCrew blog.
I read a story recently about two developers.
Both had roughly the same expertise and learned at about the same rate.
As they improved their skills, one of the developers shared everything he learned on a blog.
The other developer, having shared nothing he learned, had barely an audience to speak of.
If you knowanythingand I know you doyou should be teaching what you knowright now.
Here are three big reasons to get started straight away.
That you don’t have the experience, the qualifications, or the visibility to start teaching yet?
There are two ways to get past this problem and start teaching now.
The one who shared what he was learning was not an expert when he started teaching.
The more you teach, the more people will see you as an expert.
And each time you’re teaching more people, and more people are discovering your expertise.
It’s okay to not have all the answers, and it’s okay to be wrong.
Research has shown that when we explain something to other people, we come tounderstand it betterourselves.
It seems that this comes from a different way ofapproaching the learning material.
So, if nothing else,teach others for your own sake.
As Mikael points out, readerspreferto share content that offers some practical utility.
As James Clear has pointed out, successful peoplestart before they feel ready.
Teaching is no exception.
If it helps, imagine you’re teaching your former self, before you’d learned these lessons.
Start sharing what you know.
And don’t forget,there’s always someone who knows less than you.Go help them.
She is a writer atCrewand was previously Buffer’s first Content Crafter and Head of Content at Attendly.
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