There is a way to explain to neophytes and it's generally to be more emotional problem-solving and intuitive, and less logical or scientific. There's a toxicity

There is a way to explain to neophytes and it's generally to be more emotional problem-solving and intuitive, and less logical or scientific. There's a toxicity that can rise up in talking in a seemingly over-specific manner which puts people off. Explain it from the perspective of, "well, in order to get XYZ done, we are frustrated by it being hard, so we make an easy guess .. we try thinking about the problem in this crude way way because that's easy to think about, and then we make ABC because we know about ABC's ... and we are excited when using it gets us closer to working than anything else we've tried before". Emotion-laden explanations are a viable way to explain to non-techs. They may be more comfortable thinking emotionally, whereas we are steeped in the logic and sometimes mathematics of our practice. So we must reintroduce emotion into the explanations. It worked for me, explaining to my family, they followed on and actually understood.