Teaching Someone Quotes

• If you want to be useful, you can always start now. It will be a humble prototype of your grand vision, but you’ll be in the game. Start by teaching someone this week. Starting small puts 100% of your energy into solving real problems for real people.

  Derek Sivers

  Real, Teaching, Humble

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• The key to teaching anything is to remember what it was like not to understand that thing. That's a very hard thing to do. Every time you come to understand something you didn't understand before, you are transformed. You become a different person from who you were before. The key to teaching someone else to understand that same thing is to remember your former, untransformed self. If you can do that, I think you can teach anything, even physics.

  David Goodstein

  Teaching, Thinking, Keys

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• Teaching someone that doesn't know something forces you to think about almost every single aspect of it, including parts of it that you could sort of take for granted.

  Joe Rogan

  Teaching, Thinking, Mma

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• Teaching someone to program is like giving them a superpower.

  Hilary Mason

  Teaching, Giving, Program

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• You can eliminate depression without making someone happy. You can cure anxiety without teaching someone optimism. You can return someone to work without improving their job performance. If all you strive for is diminishing the bad, you'll only attain the average and you'll miss out entirely on the opportunity to exceed the average.

  Shawn Achor

  Jobs, Teaching, Opportunity

  Shawn Achor (2011). “The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology that Fuel Success and Performance at Work”, p.11, Random House

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