Beat the Curse of Knowledge by Explaining "Why"

Written by stevekonves | Published 2020/08/26
Tech Story Tags: leadership | personal-development | software-development | mentoring | curse-of-knowledge | education | hackernoon-top-story | explaining-why | web-monetization

TLDR The Curse of Knowledge is the cognitive bias that prevents experts from remembering what it’s like not to know something and is the primary inhibitor in their ability to teach novices. Decompose broad ideas into nuggets just granular enough that they can be understood and converted to small victories. The Curse is unavoidable, but we can mitigate its effects by decomposing complex behaviors into core concepts. Like the menu at a restaurant, large decomposing ideas provides a menu of solutions to bridge the gap between experts and non-experts.via the TL;DR App

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Written by stevekonves | I eat food and build things. Opinions are my own.
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/08/26