Teach Others What You Learned Late In Life
You don’t know what you know until you teach it
Learning is not just about consuming wisdom for yourself — it’s also about transferring what you know to others.
That’s how knowledge spreads.
Parents unconsciously (and on a few occasions deliberately) pass on their beliefs, values, perceptions, morals and mental models to their kids.
“While we teach, we learn,” Seneca said.
I’ve learned a lot from others via books, blogs, newsletters, podcasts and courses.
I’m still learning every day. It’s a more deliberate process now. Learning is a massive part of my life and what I do for a living. I’m still learning how to write better articles. Writing helps. So, I try to write daily or better still, teach what I’m learning.
What I don’t want to do is to keep all that knowledge to myself. That’s why I learn in public and share my intellectual curiosity journey with others.
I learned a lot of things late in life:
- How to enjoy learning without making it a chore.
- How to read good books and get the most value from them.
- How to stay calm when everything around me is chaotic.
- How to invest wisely and leverage compound growth.
I also learned through self-directed learning the life-changing value of solitude, the importance of taking responsibility for your own happiness and success and the practical value of thinking clearly.
I write about almost everything I learn. And I find even more ideas to write about when I publish in public.
These days, I ask more questions about life and living it and tend to question conventional wisdom, beliefs and perceptions I picked up growing up.
Do these conventional wisdom still serve me? I keep asking myself. I measure a lot of habits and experiment with different things I come across daily.
“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned,” Richard Feynman said.
