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How Adult Educators Must Transform Themselves Before They Transform Others — and Before AI Replaces Them Today, the biggest threat to adult educators is not AI. The biggest threat is remaining the same person while the world changes. Content can now be generated by machines. Slides can be produced in seconds. Explanations can be delivered by chatbots. So what is left for human educators? Transformation. But here’s the truth: You cannot transform your audience if you yourself are not transformed. Here is how adult educators must upgrade: from Andy Ng’s perspective, based on Sinology, Yijing, Art of War, and Love Intelligence. 1. Upgrade Your Inner World Before Touching the Outer World Wang Yangming taught that “knowledge and action are one.” If the educator’s heart is not calm, clear, and loving, the audience can feel it immediately. Before you teach, ask yourself: • Am I present? • Am I centred? • Am I teaching from love, not ego? • Am I living what I teach? People f...

Mention the word training and most people would think of going back to school. Some will equate training to those long sessions into the nights where you would be challenged to do the impossible like cutting a cane with your neck.  There are some who think that training is for people who are not up to the par, high performers, they say, do not need training. Recently, most people know that training is a competitive tool to outsell your competition, for the government's PIC scheme gives 60% cash or 400% tax deduction for training. Yet we know deep inside use that the purpose of training is not the accumulation of knowledge and skills, but the use and application of such knowledge and skills to bring about change withi n us .  For when we change, then would our teamwork and organization change.  The teachings of trainers is to help us develop a good mindset so that we can think and act skilfully, not randomly.  Then the productivity and profits of the organizat...