I was talking to someone on Twitter today, and they mentioned that someone texted them and asked them to teach them about web3 and how to make money with it. Now, the person who received the text would experience PTSD and cringe.
They will do this because they will immediately recall how they began and how everything seemed like sorcery to them.
This flashback will last for a few seconds, and then it will cause hesitation, which will lead to an answer like "I am not sure I can teach you, it is a lot of experience; a lot of work, effort, learning curve, mistakes, pain, gains, failure, and many others."
Now, the person they have told this to will become enraged or offended, and they will quit.
In all honesty, being in the shoes of the person who was supposed to be the teacher is difficult, but from the perspective of the person who is supposed to be taught, it usually seems like a piece of cake or a walk in the park until they start learning it for themselves.
Did you do maths in school?
I started out my teaching career teaching toddlers who were 7 and 8 years. At the beginning most of the things I taught them were like sorcery, you could see the confusion in their eyes, but because it was my full-time job, I had enough time to actually discover ways to teach them them.
I began using stories, images, and children's ideologies, and most of them eventually understood.
Teaching web3 to a fully grown adult is similar to teaching toddlers who should be in second or third grade.
However, unless most (potential teachers) are motivated to do so, they will not have the time to do so for free, because the more difficult the knowledge, the more the teacher is required to do.
Teachers want to see students put forth effort, and this is one of the motivators that causes them to reconsider, particularly if they (students) are willing to shoot first and ask questions later.
What I mean by this is that when it comes to new things, people prefer to get directions first before diving in and figuring it out for themselves.
Although I agree that it is preferable to be tutored by someone else, unless tutoring is their full-time job, they will never have enough teaching time.
You cannot learn "experience" because experience is a series of interconnected events that teach and make you aware of things you previously did not know. You are supposed to pass "through"; lessons can be taught, but experience cannot.
People are taught theories in schools, and the majority of these theories are unrelated to real-world events.
Life is a treasure trove of knowledge waiting to be discovered, and the majority of the most difficult knowledge in the world is financially beneficial.
For example, if you do not do business with someone, you will not learn to be wary of trusting them. Many things cannot be taught; the learning process requires firsthand exposure, which takes a long time.
Pay for time experience
When you go to the mechanic, you cannot ask them to teach you how to fix your car. This is because they cannot "instill" 8 to 15 years of car repair experience in a few weeks or months. Even if they discovered a way to do so (which is impossible), you still need hands-on experience with cars to qualify as a mechanic, which will take years.
So, most of the time, the best option is to pay them to repair the car. You are not paying for the time it will take to repair the car; instead, you are paying for the experience required to repair the car.
Passing on one's experience to another is nearly impossible. Most people mistake knowledge for experience. While the former is required for the latter, the latter is a hybrid of the former and years of experience; failure and success.
I have gotten really bad at teaching over the years. I used to be very passionate about teaching and knowledge, but I have gotten really bad at explaining concepts that I have had experience with, unlike when I was a grade one teacher.
Although the knowledge was much simpler and easier, the concept of web3 is more difficult; it is not black and white, and the knowledge can contradict itself, which is why you need personal or firsthand experience.
To begin, I believe that those who are motivated to teach web3 knowledge are the most effective. There are numerous ways in which this can occur, but ordinary people who are actually very experienced and can be geniuses are usually motivated to teach anyone. Most of the time, these people can only give you crumbs, phrases, and incomplete statements, leaving you to figure it out for yourself.
Figuring it out.
"Figuring it out" is a trial-and-error learning process; while you will make many terrible mistakes and waste a lot of time, it is the best way to learn.
For example One of the hardest concepts to understand in crypto is how the market works and this is because the market is not static, it's dynamism makes previous knowledge almost obsolete, and unless you're having to learn, unlearn and relearn (which is a process) you'll be stuck with one form of knowledge which might not hold any futuristic value.
Most of the time, I simply tell people to figure it out. If you have crumbs of knowledge to start any industry in life, you must simply dive in head first. There is generally no motivation to teach, which is why you must personally prioritize gaining experience from your own first-person point of view.
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