Teaching To Learn

What had occurred to me the other day was that regardless of what role you play in your career or even in life in general, there’s always a good game of ping-pong going on. And what I mean is that back-and-forth relationship that you are sometimes the teacher and at other times you are the student. And not all the time, it’s as clear-cut as you’d like it to be but later figure out in hindsight that something was gained from either stance.

I had a conversation with a friend of mine who admitted he has an ego-trip and that he just liked hearing the sound of his own voice. It gave him the feeling that he had power over others because they were the “passive” listeners listening to his ability to speak so eloquently on his vast knowledge of things.

On a more personal note, providing suggestions or coming up with lesson plans to help others made me realize that it pushes me to collect and organize my thoughts that were intended to help others in the first place. And as a result preparing these teachings enable me to evaluate and re-evaluate everything that I am providing which would not only make sense to my listeners but also to me.

In both scenarios, positive gains were made for my friend as well as me because they make us look back on what we have done. In my friend’s case, he figured out he had an ego-trip and that sometimes it would be detrimental to his abilities to be the listener to continue to expand upon his vast neurological library of knowledge. In essence, he would block himself from learning more if he never reflected on his past actions or, in this case, his teachings.

For me knowledge becomes fitted into a filing shelf and is more easily accessible by me if I had to explain certain things to others. Preparing for others in a way prepares me to fine-tune my abilities to communicate with others in need. So my “students” had actually taught me to become more organized. And as I pursue this new endeavor of mine into Coastal, it’s becoming clearer and clearer to me what I’m providing with this business opportunity as I learn from my own teachings.

By: Jay M Wang

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Want to know how to make a full-time income on the Internet? Click here for more details. Author Jay Wang has been working from home as a musician and a Coastal Vacations member. He can be contacted via his own Coastal Vacations website and can be reached at 877-478-4431.