You have not fully passed down knowledge if the next person can only copy your exact moves.

LEADERSHIP

WHAT THIS MEANS

Copying works until conditions change, and conditions always change. If all you have transmitted is the sequence of actions, then the first unfamiliar situation leaves the other person stranded with a method and no way of adapting it. What they need is the thinking that produced the moves, which is harder to hand over and worth far more.

Check whether the people you have taught can explain why they do what they do. If they cannot, that is the next lesson. Reasoning travels where instructions cannot.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Who copies you well but cannot yet think like you?

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