Substack: The Myth of the Gift

About this episode

The episode discusses the misconception that certain skills cannot be taught and explores various related topics.

Send us Fan Mail Recently several of Corey's projects have come across the same stumbling block: a lot of people believe many skills can’t be taught. This has come up in my poking around the topics of therapeutic relationships, compassion, supervision, writing, and emotional labor. In each of these areas, there is a pervasive fallacy that the reason a person is good at a skill is the result of a mystical innate genius. Some je ne sais quoi. Some indefinable essence. This is not only unt...

Topics covered

• therapeutic relationships
• compassion
• supervision
• writing
• emotional labor
• skill development

Keywords

• skills
• teaching
• myth
• gift
• emotional labor
• compassion
• supervision

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