Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach.
Change my mind.
(this is a fairly weak commitment of mine)
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Sometimes to get better at something it helps to teach it. In which case: those who learn to do, teach.
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If you discover efficient ways to teach, it's high-leverage. Particularly if your pursuit (e.g. web, marketing, writing, research) is one that grants leverage to a diversified approach.
Teaching can sometimes be done without slowing down much (a la ).
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Putting aside nuance. (i.e. some truth and some falsity there in reality) To teach something you have to understand it. So that's a funny definition of "can't". And we all know and suffer from lots of "do'ers" who can't.
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What about if you're in a field like medicine where a lot of teaching is through doing?
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Those who have done enough already, teach others to do it instead.
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Seems like ability is the wrong sorting function.
2x2 of ability and risk tolerance probably sorts the teachers from the doers better.
There are plenty of people who risked things with no skill (bankruptcy) and plenty of teachers with skills that never risked it (bschool profs)
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Whether you are teaching or doing depends on your ambitions and the demand for the skills you have.
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Can those who are untaught, do? Sometimes. Can those who haven’t done, teach? Maaaybe.
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the object of teaching is that others might do what you can’t
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