• Talk about all the content you want to communicate.

  • The receiver has less prerequisite knowledge than the speaker, so the explanation that the speaker thinks “this explanation will get the message across” is often insufficient

  • P1: Listeners are overwhelmed by a large amount of content that is not well explained

  • Is this not good?

  • The speaker is not an esper.

  • P2: The speaker does not know what the listener has prior knowledge of

  • It is impossible to “tell a story that will be understood by the listener” because what is conveyed depends on the prior knowledge one has.

  • The strategy of “spread out a lot, and if you get a few hits, you’re OK” is also possible, depending on the situation.

  • Image of hitting a shotgun

  • To resolve P1, it is possible to check if they are following along, as appropriate

    • However, Afraid to say, “I don’t know.” The phenomenon prevents the listener from sharing “I don’t know” information.
    • Methods to get people to answer questions
      • This is another case of raising and lowering the hand to match the surroundings.
  • To solve P2, communication with the listener in advance could be considered

    • If there are only a few listeners, yes, but not in a case where there are 100 listeners.
  • There is also the problem of mismatches that occur when people come to a lecture thinking that they have to understand 100% of what is being said.


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