Can You Teach What You Don't Know?

Can you teach what you don't know? In this episode, David Carson explores why the most "irresponsible" approach to education—teaching while you're still learning—might actually be the secret to mastering anything. From a guy fumbling through fractions with his nephew to barely-sober alcoholics teaching recovery, Carson reveals how the struggle to explain what you barely understand creates deeper learning than years of traditional study.Featuring Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman's "backwards" teaching method and new research that makes education experts squirm, this episode challenges the sacred rule that expertise must come before instruction. Turns out the best way to learn something might be to butcher it in front of someone else first.Sign up for the Dumbify newsletter: https://www.david-carson.com/Dumbify celebrates ideas so weird, wrong, or wildly impractical… they just might be brilliant. Hosted by David Carson, a serial entrepreneur behind multiple hundred-million-dollar companies and the go-to secret weapon for companies looking to unlock new markets through unconventional thinking. Dumbify dives into the messy, counter-intuitive side of creativity — the “dumb” ideas that built empires, broke rules, and ended up changing everything.

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