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2 years ago

> You'll implement it, get on with your day, and not at all think about why the answer is what it is.

this is an incorrect assumption. some people (like me) have an analytical mind. if I am given an answer, I will usually reverse it back to the question, so that I understand how it came about. or I will ask follow up questions until I have that understanding.

all this method is doing is forcing multiple people to go through the discovery process, when all that should be needed is for one person to do so. its a waste of business resources. person A can share with person B, then person B can go on to make their own discoveries. we dont need to force every employee to discover EVERYTHING on their own. thats just a huge waste of time. it would be like forcing everyone to discover Pythagorean theorem on their own, instead of giving them that tool and letting them use it to create other stuff.

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mynameisvlad  2 years ago

Just because you're a special snowflake (you aren't, but keep believing it if it works for you) doesn't mean that the discovery process isn't the best approach for teaching most people things. Hearing or reading something is the lowest form of learning and generally results in the lowest retention.

> thats just a huge waste of time.

Instilling knowledge and discovery rather than rote completion of work based on others' ideas is far from a "waste of time" for people who actually understand the learning process. Growth is generally desired in the business world, even if it results in a short term hit.