Ages ago I wrote a post about a new CCC: Create, Consume, Curate. Someday Iโll recover the post from the archives, but the gist was that I think itโs healthy to split your time equally across these three activities.For me the middle C is the hardest, and if Iโm honest Iโd rather spend all my time on the first C, but like a balanced diet it takes some discipline lest you suffer the ills of โtoo much of a good thingโ. The world has no shortage of examples of the negative effects of over-indulgence oneself in too much of one C.Itโs one of my favorite of all the things of written, but something I left out was and explicit mention of teaching, and upon reflecting on the subject, I think that was a mistake.Good teaching incorporates all three Cโs, but deliberate teaching is also an essential vitamin and/or mineral to a healthy organism. I really wrote A New CCC from a personal, solitary perspective but a decade or two later Iโm much more aware of the importance of acting in the interest of lives beyond oneโs own. Teaching, even more than genetics, is what evolves the human animal and our individual failure to prioritize teaching others is at the root of some of the diseases that threaten the future of this particular species.So people like me, we need to make teaching part of our recommended daily allowance of activities. Adhering to the CCC does this in a passive way, but I believe that whatโs needed is an active ingredient as well.
