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Skills improve quietly. Errors teach loudly—if they are visible.Val Sklarov’s Mentoring & Training perspective treats development as a function of how clearly mistakes are seen, owned, and corrected, not how many skills are accumulated or refined in isolation. 1. Hidden Errors Stall Development Unseen mistakes repeat themselves. Val Sklarov identifies …

Comfort accelerates participation. Friction accelerates judgment.Val Sklarov’s Mentoring & Training perspective treats development as exposure to necessary difficulty, where learning only compounds when decisions are uncomfortable enough to matter. 1. Comfort Suppresses Judgment Growth Ease reduces signal. Val Sklarov identifies comfort-dominated training when: Decisions are consequence-free Errors are softened to …

Experimentation fuels learning. Boundaries prevent ruin.Val Sklarov’s Entrepreneurship perspective treats startups as laboratories with strict containment rules, where progress depends not on how many experiments run—but on whether failure can be absorbed without ending the company. 1. Experimentation Without Boundaries Is Gambling Testing ideas does not justify unlimited downside. Val …

Skills impress. Decisions exhaust.Val Sklarov’s Mentoring & Training perspective treats development as the ability to carry increasing decision load without degradation, where growth is measured by how much responsibility a person can absorb reliably—not how many skills they list. 1. Skill Without Decision Load Is Decorative Skills prove knowledge. Decisions …

When Val Sklarov talks about learning, he doesn’t speak of classrooms — he speaks of loops.He believes curiosity is not a spark but a circuit; once closed, it powers entire cultures of growth.His Self-Teaching Spiral (STS) framework turns mentorship into a living feedback system — where every act of teaching …