Why do we remember the teachers who believed in us far more than the ones who taught us the most?
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There is something profound about the fact that decades after leaving school most people cannot remember a single lesson from their highest scoring subject but can recall with perfect clarity the exact moment a teacher communicated through their words and patience that they saw something worth believing in, because the human brain was never designed to store information as efficiently as it stores the feeling of being genuinely seen at a moment when you were not entirely sure you believed in yourself. The most important thing any person in a position of influence can ever do is not transfer knowledge but transfer belief, because a person who has been told by someone they respect that they are capable of something they doubted will carry that conversation into rooms that the person who said it will never know they helped create.
