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My biggest challenge with explaining things to people is the stuff they already know that's either wrong or not relevant. To save the effort of finding out late
by exe34 2y ago
My biggest challenge with explaining things to people is the stuff they already know that's either wrong or not relevant. To save the effort of finding out later, I now ask people to explain it to me first, tell me everything they know about this, before I can figure out how far back I have to step before explaining it all.
- pessimizer 2y agoI'm also a "What do you think happens?" person. It both gives me a place to start, and a bunch of stuff to peg other stuff onto that I'm about to say. If you can link points of a good explanation to points of a bad, but intuitive naïve explanation, it makes it easier to remember the good explanation.
- lupire 2y agoThat is the the special skill of a teacher. But any expert should be able to competently explain something to someone who isn't harboring a mistaken belief. Look at the ABC Conjecture catastrophe.