"Trained to" is accurate, but at any given moment it's basically equivalent to "be able to". Following may not have as steep a learning curve as leading, but it's still plenty difficult if you're not used to it. For example, while I'm certainly getting better at following in waltz and contra, and I expect I will be good at it with enough practice, at the moment my following skills are definitely inferior to my leading skills in both of those.
There's also some sense in which following can be more difficult than leading, since an inexperienced leader will simply not do much, whereas an inexperienced follower may have to react to all sorts of things that they don't expect or understand.
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on 2009-10-23 12:49 am (UTC)There's also some sense in which following can be more difficult than leading, since an inexperienced leader will simply not do much, whereas an inexperienced follower may have to react to all sorts of things that they don't expect or understand.