DTH-XII-0030
“I started teaching what I know and it feels like the actual point.”
Knowledge dies with the person unless it's handed off. When you teach, you are doing the one thing that lets your finite work outlast your finite life. This pull you feel is not vanity, it's the right instinct. Pour into them now, fully, while you still have it to give.
Your Practice
- Pick one person to invest in deeply rather than ten shallowly.
- Teach them not just the how but the why behind your hard-won lessons.
- Give them a real problem and let them struggle before you rescue them.
- Write down the things you know that you'd hate to see lost.
The Architects
“A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life.”
Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, Part I: Experiences in a Concentration Camp (Ilse Lasch translation, Beacon Press)