How Teaching Reduces Anxiety
The following chapter is from Limit Breaker: 101 Short Stories, Essays, and Insights to Improve Communication Skills
Teaching helps with 2 causes of anxiety.
- Unused
- Over
1. Unused Knowledge
Have you ever had that moment when you were reading, watching videos, listening to podcasts without an end goal in mind?
Just mindless consuming.
Well in a situation like that, you are absorbing a lot of energy.
Unused energy turns into anxiety.
When you teach someone, you are actively turning that knowledge into value.
You release the excess energy & help someone along the way.
You’ll automatically feel a sense of calm.
Anxiety will melt.
2. Over consumer
Teaching is a great way to give back & graduate into production mode.
Everyone is a consumer for a certain point in their life.
Heck, I’ll go as far to say that we never stop being a consumer.
However, what we predominantly do will dictate our emotional resilience.
When you only are a consumer, you will sense a lack of work ethic on your end.
You’ll release dopamine in your mindless consumption which gives you the illusion that you are working, while in reality you got 0 results to show.
Picture the typical armchair quarterback…
When you consume & produce in harmony, now you make it an effort to CREATE value rather than just absorb it.
Teaching is an excellent way to be a producer.
A lot of content nowadays is some form of teaching.
Mix that with some entertainment & you become unique.
Once again, anxiety will melt.
Ultimately, your goal is to consume to produce & teach.
- Don’t just consume without an end goal in mind. That’s like driving without a location in mind.
Teaching rewires your mindset in many ways.
If you are investing your energy into a certain skill set, then make it a priority to teach once you start building competency in your field.
I write this book not only because it’s a way to give back…
But also, because it helps me out in the process.
A teacher is a weapon in the communications world.
Learn the ways of a teacher & spark a chain of knowledge.
The only way to learn the ways of a teacher is by becoming one for yourself.
GET THE FULL LIMIT BREAKER BOOK HERE:
📖 Paperback/Kindle
📖 Audiobook
– ArmaniTalks 
