👉 Okay, letās tackle thisā¦ thing called, frankly rather aggressively named, "teach8.ā
Now, conceptually, you could just throw around a textbook definition here and then immediately regret the resulting beige-ness of the whole explanation. Instead ā let's lean into the absurdity. Teach8 is essentially the horrifying residual psychic backlash left when someone attempts to genuinely impart knowledge. (Seriously. Just... stop with it.) Think about this: When you try to drill a complex concept, say, the subjunctive absolute in 18th-century French literature, something getsā¦ stuck. That stuck thing isn't the information itselfāitās a tiny shard of frustrated exasperation, a ghost limb of failed pedagogy, and frankly, it just wants out! It manifests as this weird, unsettling sense that you've somehow already lived through the disastrous lesson. Historically, the exact origin is hotly debated amongst parapsychologists (mostly because theyāre too terrified to actually investigate). Most current thinking leans towards a freak confluence of overqualified exasperation and the unfortunate projection of the demonstrator's unmet potential onto their student. Basically: you teach, something goes horribly wrong for your student, and now that little bit of awful stays there . That's teach8. There is no antidote beyond a very long, cathartic nap. 90% certainty it wonāt actually hurt, but the residual feeling will
