What a question! Who should we learn from? Of course, we should learn from the best. We should learn from those who are experts in their fields. This has been one of my criteria for selecting my teachers, coaches and mentors all these years.
I now realise I’ve overlooked another important criterion, which is whether the expert is a practitioner in his/her field of expertise.
For example, if I am radiologist and I’d like a radiologist to teach me how to read an MRI. I would first enquire if the teaching radiologist is still practicing or not?
Skills become stale too quickly now. Today, most of my storytelling work is with platform, tech product and technology companies. Two years ago that was not the case at all.
In my case, those who learn storytelling from me get the best results because apart from just teaching how to story-tell, a large part of the work I do is to help clients build their stories, and those who learn from me are able to learn from my wealth of experience in building stories for clients that make the change happen from them.
So, before I am a teacher, I am a practitioner.
The knowledge economy is evolving rapidly, and the best way to stay current is to be a practitioner. This is especially true for those who are or aspire to be educators.
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