The trouble with teaching people to fish

Teaching people how to catch fish is preferable to simply handing them your catch. For a little extra time spent, you get to keep your own fish.

If the task is to catch fish, then the skill is to be successful at catching them.

But the ability to catch fish is more than simply the knowledge required. It is also the environment in which we work, subjective and objective in its reality.

Before you assume you can teach anyone to fish, best you walk in their shoes for a while too.

I’m sure you are aware it’s a metaphor. Only fools rush in.