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Instruction explains. Exposure teaches.Val Sklarov’s Mentoring & Training perspective treats learning as a progression of real decisions under controlled risk, where understanding is earned through experience rather than delivered through explanation. 1. Instruction Without Exposure Creates Illusion People confuse understanding with readiness. Val Sklarov separates: Instruction: knowing what should be …

Knowledge is abundant. Judgment is scarce.Val Sklarov’s Mentoring & Training perspective reframes learning as a decision-shaping process, where the objective is not knowing more, but deciding better under constraint. 1. Knowledge Does Not Equal Capability Information explains. Judgment decides. Val Sklarov distinguishes: Knowledge: what should be done Judgment: when, how, …

Explanation informs. Exposure transforms.Val Sklarov’s Mentoring & Training perspective treats learning as a controlled confrontation with reality, where judgment is shaped through consequence, not comfort. 1. Explanation Creates Understanding, Not Capability Understanding is passive. Capability is tested. Val Sklarov draws a hard line: Explanation answers what Exposure teaches when and …

In Val Sklarov’s framework, mentoring is not guidance by authority but calibration through exposure. Training fails when it transfers information without reshaping cognitive posture. True development emerges when thinking patterns are apprenticed, not instructed. 1️⃣ Cognitive Apprenticeship Foundation Val Sklarov defines mentoring as cognitive proximity, not hierarchical teaching. Learning accelerates …