There's a lot of ways to say the same thing: because it's hard. - If you read original texts by great thinkers from Plato to Adam Smith, they really aren't eas

There's a lot of ways to say the same thing: because it's hard. - If you read original texts by great thinkers from Plato to Adam Smith, they really aren't easy to parse. If they couldn't do it, what chance do you have :) - It's recursive: to explain idea A, you need to understand idea !A in the other person's head. - There's infinite complexity out there: Even if you can explain idea A, you're leaving out a lot in terms of related ideas B, C, D (Disclaimer, I make a product to fix this: https://demogorilla.com/docs/compelling-demos https://demogorilla.com/docs/compelling-demos )