Do you teach something? Well, professionally. All of us are teachers, mentors, I mean choose your label, but do you get paid for the teaching? That's the key question. Me? I do. That doesn't make me better than you, not by a long shot. I say this as a point to a greater ends. I doubt you don't have one skill that you can't teach professionally. I don't believe you if you say you don't. I simply refuse. There is something in your life that you can do better than the majority of the population, and you know what it is, so why don't you teach it?
I am an English tutor, and I do love that job. I have a brief period where I was unclear whether or not I really made a difference, but I dismissed those thoughts and focused on what I saw, rather than what I thought. And I learned, ironically from teaching, that I do make a difference. And everything I teach and learn as a teacher comes with me to any job I perform, whether it’s my career, or simply doing the laundry.
If you don't want to teach as a tutor, or a teacher/professor, don't then. But I'm telling you right now; spread your knowledge regardless of the medium. Write a blog, have a YouTube video account with educational clips, teach it to your employees/co-workers. Spread that knowledge and skill around, and with discretion, you can make a difference.
Whether you know it or not, you're a teacher. Especially if you're a parent. But, that aside everyone around you learns from everything you do merely by observation. So teach! But...be careful about how you carry yourself. Maybe you're teaching lessons that you might not have a good lesson plan for.
Think about it.
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