Learn-Do-Teach Loop
Three-stage cycle: learn by seeing, learn by doing, learn by teaching — looped continuously.
"Skip the teach step and you'll relearn the same lesson next year."
What is Learn-Do-Teach Loop? Three-stage cycle: learn by seeing, learn by doing, learn by teaching — looped continuously. Embed in onboarding: every new hire learns, applies, then teaches the next cohort.
Eben Pagan's documented decade of compounding through Learn-Do-Teach.
Embed in onboarding: every new hire learns, applies, then teaches the next cohort.
Audit your weekly time: are all three present? If not, restructure.
Use the model. Pick the move.
Three-stage cycle: learn by seeing, learn by doing, learn by teaching — looped continuously. You've just seen this: Eben Pagan's documented decade of compounding through Learn-Do-Teach. Which lever does the model recommend?
Pick a lever. There are no neutral ones — every incentive funds a behavior somewhere.
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- Relationships
- Where in our org would Learn-Do-Teach Loop most often show up unnoticed?
- Which metric, ritual, or contract clause quietly rewards Learn-Do-Teach Loop?
- If we removed every payoff for Learn-Do-Teach Loop, what behavior would replace it?
- Who benefits when Learn-Do-Teach Loop persists — and who pays the cost?
- People defend the status quo using the language of learn-do-teach loop.
- Decisions cluster around the easiest narrative rather than the strongest evidence.
- New data changes the slide deck but not the decision.
- Anyone naming the pattern is treated as the problem.
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Each layer of the Incentives OS reframes this concept with its own thinkers, vocabulary, and diagnostic question.
Long-form essays that cite Learn-Do-Teach Loop
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Which best describes Learn-Do-Teach Loop?
Worked example, counter-example & concept map
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Your nervous system has a region for this.
When you encounter Learn-Do-Teach Loop, your striatum has built a reward association — and the next time the cue appears, it will push you toward the behavior whether you decide to or not.
Reward learning, habit formation, anticipation, craving, action selection. Habits live here. So do addictions. Variable rewards train this circuit faster than fixed ones.
See Striatum in the Brain Atlas →Picked for you, from the Atlas
Ranked by shared learning paths, overlapping chips, and what you've saved.
Your capacity to learn, unlearn, and relearn faster than the environment changes.
Malcolm Knowles's principles of adult learning: self-direction, experience as resource, readiness, problem-centered orientation, intrinsic motivation.
Amishi Jha's research: attention is a finite, depletable, but trainable cognitive resource — short daily mindfulness measurably improves it.
Approach a situation as if you knew nothing.
Unusual or bizarre material is more memorable than common material.
Hierarchy of cognitive learning: Remember → Understand → Apply → Analyze → Evaluate → Create. Benjamin Bloom, 1956 (revised 2001).
Send the card, not just the link
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More definitions to follow
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Stacking two or three rare-but-learnable skills until the combination becomes uniquely valuable.
Autonomic nervous system shapes safety, threat, and connection responses.
People take more risks when they feel safer.
Restating the strongest version of your opponent's argument before responding.
Where, how, what — in that order.
A single story used as proof of a general claim.
Quarterly bonuses create end-of-quarter behavior changes.
A system with many interacting parts that learn and adapt.
We spend less when holding large bills than small ones — same money, different behavior.
Assuming something exists because we can name or define it.
The brain's overnight cleaning system; clears metabolic waste during sleep.
We favor members of our own group over outsiders.