The Swimming coach analogy

<p>Imagine a swimming coach.
Swimming coaches are hired to teach people how to swim.</p> <p>Lets take swimming coach A.
He knows everything about the pool.
He knows how your current skill level will react on the pool.
Since he knows that you are unskilled, he wont let you use the pool.
Or only let you use the shallow side, hoping that one day you will be skillful enough to use the deeper side.
He acted as a sentry.</p> <p>Now here’s swimming coach B.
Like coach A he knows everything about the pool.
And he also knows your how your current skill level will react on the pool.
But he lets you use the entire pool because he knows he can “catch you if you fall”.
His expertise allows him to know what you can do and where he needs to intervene.
He acted as a guardian.</p> <h1>The Technical Role</h1> <blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>If you have more than you need, build longer tables, not higher fences. -Anonymous (if you know who said this pls tell me)</p></blockquote> <p>Your should be acting as a bridge between your realm of technical info and others’ field.
You should act like swimming coach B.
You should act like a translator.</p> <p>Doing this maximizes your value, instead of just being a “requirement” in the team</p> <p>Real value comes from what you share and not from things you know (and other people don’t).</p> <p>
If everyone from different fields work like this, we can merge and maximize our skills and potentials to achieve things bigger than ourselves.</p>