Can you teach a talented, untrained person a skill so that they exceed your own ability? Can you then identify why they are superior? If you have deep level knowledge of your area of expertise that you can impart to others, you ought to be able to evaluate and train a replacement based on “raw talent.”
Considering that intellectual or artistic endeavors may have a variety of details hidden even from the expert, perhaps a clearer example may be found in sports coaches.
Perhaps a clearer example may be found in sports coaches.
The main reason that coaches are important (not just in sports) is because of blind spots—i.e., things that are outside of a person’s direct perceptual awareness.
Think of the Dunning-Kreuger effect: if you can’t perceive it, you can’t improve it.
(This is also why publications have editors; if a writer could perceive the errors in their work, they could fix them themselves.)
Can you teach a talented, untrained person a skill so that they exceed your own ability? Can you then identify why they are superior? If you have deep level knowledge of your area of expertise that you can impart to others, you ought to be able to evaluate and train a replacement based on “raw talent.”
Considering that intellectual or artistic endeavors may have a variety of details hidden even from the expert, perhaps a clearer example may be found in sports coaches.
The main reason that coaches are important (not just in sports) is because of blind spots—i.e., things that are outside of a person’s direct perceptual awareness.
Think of the Dunning-Kreuger effect: if you can’t perceive it, you can’t improve it.
(This is also why publications have editors; if a writer could perceive the errors in their work, they could fix them themselves.)