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You Can Teach Anyone Anything

Name: You Can Teach Anyone Anything
Uploaded: 2024-07-29T21:00:11+00:00
Duration: 18 s
Channel: Shanli Liu, CPA, CTP
Description: In a brief conversational exchange, Speaker A argues that any skill can be taught if it is broken down sufficiently, but questions the value of training…

29 Jul 2024 · 0 min

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In a brief conversational exchange, Speaker A argues that any skill can be taught if it is broken down sufficiently, but questions the value of training individuals who lack basic meta‑skills such as reading, writing, and communication. Speaker B counters by noting that becoming a competent software engineer takes a decade of experience, implying that there are no shortcuts to mastery. Speaker A concludes that it is preferable to hire people who already possess foundational meta‑skills and then provide targeted training to bridge specific gaps for the business, rather than attempting to train someone from scratch.

Every skill is trainable. The question is whether it's worth the return on effort and the resources to train someone with it. That's my fundamental belief of the world, is that if you break things down enough, you can train someone to do anything. It's just that if someone has zero meta skills, they don't know how to read, they don't know how to write, they don't know how to talk, you could teach someone to do all that stuff. It's just, why bother?
Like, I know as a software engineer, no one's going to be any decent in 10 years. There's just no shortcutting that.
So I'd rather take someone who's already here and then just nudge them if I can with, you know, proper training that just bridges the gap between all the skills they come in with and then applying that to my business.