When teaching becomes walking
Weāve spent decades living under the idea that someone else knows better ā that authority lives āout there,ā in titles, credentials, or followers. That era shaped us to look for pre-existing knowledge, for answers, not to listen for them. Iām really glad to say⦠the age of experts is ending. That model is collapsing. The new way isnāt about teaching from above. Itās about walking beside. Weāre shifting from āDo what I say, Iām the expertā to āI can guide you, so you become an expert, too.ā Real leadership doesnāt demand obedience. It awakens self-trust. It doesnāt create followers. It creates more leaders. The best teachers say: « Iāll walk with you⦠close enough that you donāt get lost,but far enough that you find your own footing. I wonāt protect you from your own experience or from yourself,because what youāll learn from standing upwill anchor deeper than anything I could say. As a teacher, my role isnāt to make you follow me. Itās to help you trust yourself so completelythat one day, you wonāt need me at all.Ā Ā» The best teachers make themselves unnecessary. Because the real work now isnāt to teach others what to think,but to help them remember that they already know. The era of authority is closing.The era of empowerment has begun. Do you see that too? And if so⦠How does that shift show up in your world?