Asked by Harvard Business Review for the best way to pass down knowledge that you’ve accumulated over the years, Laird Hamilton, one of the best big-wave surfers of all time, said this:
One of my favorite things to do is observe people in the water learning to surf and figure out the one thing I could say in the fewest words to get the biggest result. Maybe it’s “put one arm back” or “lift your chest up.” You don’t give somebody three things to do when they haven’t learned to do one yet. You give them one and when they have it, you go to two.
Once they have two, you can maybe go to four.
