Every time you are inclined to use the word “teach”, replace it with “learn”. That is, instead of saying, “I teach”, say “They learn”. It’s very easy to determine what you teach; you can just fill slides with text and claim to have taught. Shift your focus to determining how you know whether they learned what you claim to have taught (or indeed anything at all!). That is much harder, but that is also the real objective of any educator.
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John Mayer on how trying and not doing it well enough is a wonderful technique for being yourself:
Failing to sound exactly like the person you want to sound like is a wonderful way to sound like yourself. So I’m not necessarily thinking this thing from scratch, going, Okay, I’m gonna, like, do Jerry-esque things, but I’m still gonna sound like me. No, it’s more like, I want to sound just like Jerry, and then the way I naturally, obviously don’t — that’s your personality. Music doesn’t let you lie. […] You try to sound like who you want to sound like, and you just will always end up sounding like you.
I like this advice. It is an interesting take on the learning by copying method.