The Protégé Effect: How to Become a Super Learner
Teach What You Learn
According to Alvin Toffler, “The illiterate of the future are not those who can’t read or write but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
This was said more than half a century ago in his book Future Shock.
The future he was talking about is today…
If you can’t learn, unlearn, and relearn, you’re falling behind.
To meet the criteria, you must deploy the most effective strategies to update your knowledge.
People have known for thousands of years that this strategy is to teach.
Even Seneca, the Roman philosopher from the 1st century AD, once said, “While we teach, we learn.”
More recently, scientists have been digging deeper into this sentiment to understand why teaching is so effective.
This has brought rise to a phenomenon they’ve dubbed the protégé effect.
What is the protégé effect?
The protégé effect is a psychological phenomenon where teaching, pretending to teach, or preparing to teach others helps an individual learn better.
It’s a natural response to the foresight you’ll be responsible for educating someone else…
