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Thank goodness that all the many people I've learned from over my life didn't have to meet some arbitrary gold standard of knowledge before they were allowed to teach me! Hardly anyone could have ever taught me anything by this standard.

Similarly, thank goodness I've had the opportunity to expand and solidify my own knowledge by teaching people things I knew, even if I wasn't sure of all the details. I can't count the number of times I've had to stop mid-explanation and say "wait a second, that thing I just said doesn't really make sense. Let's take a deeper look and figure it out together."




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