This suggests to me the difference between understanding and fluency.
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Understanding is relatively easy, with good communication. "Oh, that makes sense!"
It happens in our working memory, which operates somewhat symbolically, but can't hold much, iterate, generalize, or interpolate well. And forgets quickly.
You can "give" understanding, but it requires spelling out everything to be understood, very clearly. And it won't stick.
People will "feel" they understand for a moment. The big "win" is if they later recall you said something or other that seemed to make sense.
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Fluency begins when we have experienced something ourselves.
It is all about training our subconscious, the more intuitive part of our brain, which is very sensory and intuition driven. A lot like deep learning.
It compresses sample experiences into a general, spontaneously available form, usable in combinations with other fluencies, and give you "light bulb" epiphany moments when new combinations are surprising.
It is very hard to "give" fluency.
But you can smooth the path, by making experiences clear, fun, interesting, useful, surprising, low barrier, and low latency.
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Understanding is relatively easy, with good communication. "Oh, that makes sense!"
It happens in our working memory, which operates somewhat symbolically, but can't hold much, iterate, generalize, or interpolate well. And forgets quickly.
You can "give" understanding, but it requires spelling out everything to be understood, very clearly. And it won't stick.
People will "feel" they understand for a moment. The big "win" is if they later recall you said something or other that seemed to make sense.
--
Fluency begins when we have experienced something ourselves.
It is all about training our subconscious, the more intuitive part of our brain, which is very sensory and intuition driven. A lot like deep learning.
It compresses sample experiences into a general, spontaneously available form, usable in combinations with other fluencies, and give you "light bulb" epiphany moments when new combinations are surprising.
It is very hard to "give" fluency.
But you can smooth the path, by making experiences clear, fun, interesting, useful, surprising, low barrier, and low latency.