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Who do you think Feynman and Usain learned from?
by chrisco255 6y ago
Who do you think Feynman and Usain learned from?
- sitkack 6y agoWe often can't learn from the highest performers in the field, they either have a sub-lingual understanding of their craft or there are so many competing variables to optimize that they can't teach others. You can learn more from someone who had to toil through a subject than for someone to whom it came naturally. The journeyman with scars can transfer more skill than the master.
- enonevets 6y agoWhile it’s entirely possible someone who struggled more may be the better teacher, it’s equally possible the natural performer can be a great teacher too. Or both could equally stink at teaching. What makes someone a great teacher in my experience isn’t necessarily someone who is a natural or struggled through a subject with scars to show for it, but rather someone who is good at distilling concepts down to make them easy to understand and resonate with for the learner. That person may very well be neither of these two extremes.