Re:Ask HN: Why are expert practitioners often so bad at teac...
by an_aparallel on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @06:24PM
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i've had experiences with high level experts in personal situations...a friend of mine likes to call them "one-armed crabs". They've worked so hard on making 1 hand incredibly strong (their specialty) - that a lot of other things fall by the wayside.
Those may include hygeine, grooming, diet, social skills, sensitivity to faux pas, extreme ineptitude in unrelated skills to their specialty (these can get to absurd levels) and so on.
So it stands to reason perhaps that their ability to illuminate is next to impossible.
The road to understanding can be complex, filled with head banging on the wall...if you think to yourself what exactly made you go from "i dont get it", to "Eureka" - a lot of times there is no answer. Sometimes the synapses just do their thing. Now - previously mystic concept is intuitive, how do you go about translating that?
Those may include hygeine, grooming, diet, social skills, sensitivity to faux pas, extreme ineptitude in unrelated skills to their specialty (these can get to absurd levels) and so on.
So it stands to reason perhaps that their ability to illuminate is next to impossible.
The road to understanding can be complex, filled with head banging on the wall...if you think to yourself what exactly made you go from "i dont get it", to "Eureka" - a lot of times there is no answer. Sometimes the synapses just do their thing. Now - previously mystic concept is intuitive, how do you go about translating that?