Teaching is something we all think we can do because we all have been taught. But after teaching for a decade and hiring instructors, I can attest it is a developed skill. Learning is a flowing process that must build.

As a department director teaching six classes a semester, I thought how an exercise fed a class fed a course fed a semester fed a year fed a degree fed a career. The layered complexity was diverse, immense, and tangled. I learned how to seed an idea, inspire its growth, encourage its development, and use its resources for further exploration. These skills would prove to be highly applicable to being a UX researcher.