The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
To generate creative ideas, it's important to start from an unusual place. But to explain those ideas, they have to be connected to something familiar.
I have a funny mental framework when I do physics. I create an imaginary audience in my head to explain things to - it is part of the way I think. For me, teaching and explaining, even to my imaginary audience, is part of the process.
For me, I guess the main motivation is the satisfaction of finally understanding some tricky mathematical concept or phenomenon and then explaining it to others.
I love taking you inside a world that you're not apart of and showing how actually works.
I'm writing a science book - a sort of compendium of all the ways I've found of explaining things to my artsy friends over the years.
I've only got anywhere with Minecraft by getting my friends to explain it.
I really like to talk about my work in a way that is complicated.
I could always see myself being a teacher. I remember sitting in class as a kid, listening to the teacher and thinking, you know, I'm pretty sure I could explain that a little bit better.
