Day 3 of the bootcamp was awesome. After the student debrief, Braddock asked me if I wanted to try teaching qualification. I went through the talk (it took about ~45+ minutes) and incorporated a melding of everything I've learned from everyone. I think I went well, and it seemed to really click with the students. Braddock must have thought it was alright, because after I concluded the section, he asked me if I wanted to teach comfort. I think comfort was thorough enough as well.
I noticed when I was teaching that I'd be drawing material I've learned from the various instructors I've been taught by. For instance, qualification was a fusion of what I'd learned in the sections from Mr. M, Future and Braddock's respective seminars. In essence, I took what I felt were the best pieces of each, and what helped me understand and internalize the concepts the best, and taught them as a consolidated section. It'll keep improving if I have more opportunities to teach, but I think I did the sections, and the students, justice.
Being able to teach on the fly, speak in front of a crowd, consolidate thoughts and everything else that went into a good presentation has been a culmination of the skill sets I've developed over the years (from speech and debate I high school, to studying for countless exams in college to teaching fellow students how to interview properly and land top-notch jobs coming out of college). It was a nice reminder that most things in life bank on overall life experiences and skill sets from other areas.
I definitely solidified my understanding of qualification and comfort from teaching it. I get the feeling that the theory really got set in cement. By teaching and presenting, I was able to open up a completely different set of neruo pathways, which really crystallized the compartmentalization and internalization of the concepts, and how they're laid out. I guess this was just the next step of fusing game into my DNA :).
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