Teaching It: Why the Last Rung of the Practice Is Handing It Down

PROOF: A Field Guide to Social Courage · Oct 13, 2026 · 44m

There's a last stage of this practice that nobody warns you about, because it doesn't look like a stage - it looks like an interruption. Some man, newer than you, standing where you stood, says the sentence you used to say: "I don't know what happens to me, I just freeze." This episode is about why answering him is the final rung: why teaching forces your knowledge to be honest and finds the soft spots you never installed (the student gets advice, the teacher gets audited), why a skill that only serves you starts to feel thin, and why a man three months ahead is a better teacher than a man…