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It’s very hard to explain something you know well. Your expectations of where the other persons baseline knowledge is will always be off and your assumptions o
by iamflimflam1 3y ago
It’s very hard to explain something you know well.
Your expectations of where the other persons baseline knowledge is will always be off and your assumptions of what is “common knowledge” will be wrong.
A lot of things are also just hard to explain. Many things we know have been learnt by experience - we may not actually know the underlying logic or reasons for doing something - we just know that it’s what you have to do.
Explaining these things to someone who has not gone through the experience is very difficult.
- sircastor 3y ago>It’s very hard to explain something you know well. I really like the concept of “it’s tremendously difficult to remember what it’s like to not know something.” I think it frames really well the challenge of explaining a concept to someone.