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Ben Naismith

Jun 30, 2026

29:20
What do you usually say to people when you get these kind of questions?
29:24
Yeah, I mean, I guess I have the boilerplate preface that a lot of it is... pure luck some of it is privilege as well so there are a combination of like factors outside your control so you know like guaranteed way and I also have as a result I have massive like survivor bias in this case that I'm giving this advice because I have my current job but I could just as easily not have it so and there was no one right or wrong answer but so this is that sort of caveat in mind.
30:00
Um, what I think landed me, my work and that I observe in a lot of my colleagues is one, especially if the language teachers is being able to transfer their skills.
30:11
So again, Andrew said like a lot of those, those skills from being a language teacher are super applicable in a wide range of contexts related to pedagogy and using those related to working with learners.
30:24
Um, being able to translate challenging, complex topics into manageable chunks of information and in language that people can understand or are interested in.
30:37
So all of that is definitely still applicable.
30:40
And then I guess the other one, well, maybe two other ones.

17 MINS LATER

47:50
So definitely I've seen that in the headlines.

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