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We Learn Ways of Being by Proximity
Teaching is not limited to lessons. We learn from what people explain and from what they repeatedly do: how they prepare, listen, handle disagreement, and respond after a mistake.
Apprentices, children, and teams often learn by being near a practice long enough to see its habits. That proximity can transmit care and skill. It can also reproduce bad habits.
Being near a skilled person does not guarantee that skill will transfer. Learning still asks for attention, practice, feedback, and judgment.
Explicit instruction is one channel. Sometimes a way of meeting situations first becomes visible by watching someone live it.