A speaker explains how they reverse their natural thinking process when teaching. Instead of moving from simple to complex, they start with complex ideas and strip them down so learners think, "That's easier than I thought." This simplification is their main contribution.
Are you more towards the simple to complex or complex to simple? I think some of my team would say that I go simple to complex, and I think that's because I just have so many ideas and I see so many connections. And so honestly, and you could probably look back at this interview and I probably expanded things several times because I do see so many connections. So that's kind of a tendency And at the same time, I know that if I'm gonna be instructing or developing curriculum or writing books or anything like that, I've got to also simplify it. So, um, I do that just because I want people to know how powerful whatever it is I've discovered, this complex thing, and I know they're not gonna get it. I barely get it, right? Um, if it's in a, in a subject area that you haven't studied, it, you You're just not gonna get it. So I wanna be able to bring that to people in a way that they go, that's easier than I thought. And there's the contribution, right? That's, that's the bottom line.
Susan’s ICF Educator Award | The Heart Behind the Impact Katy Montgomery, PCC
