What drives me

To know where to start, let alone boil it down to a few short paragraphs is tricky. On one level, I could say that I enjoy teaching - it’s a social activity that keeps you on your toes, while there some subjects that I have a good understanding of, and that I like sharing and exploring with others.

But to give some idea of the deeper drivers, I could share a long story around perhaps the most ambitious, challenging and in some ways successful projects that I’ve worked on - the re:generation Project - left me with the feeling that at the end of the day, we would go home and begin the next day pulling - and being pulled in - different directions.

It seems evident to me that by and large we can all learn certain technical things if we really want to: whether that’s maths, a new language, how to drive a car, or many other things, all of which have their place. But when it comes to living together, how can perspectives be so different and yet so firm? How can we explore, communicate and learn in areas that have been elusive in the past? When do these explorations and learnings have any value?

This interest in the nature and build up of knowledge and perspective points towards teaching, but it’s the enjoyment that keeps me there.