Smart people can explain things clearly.

• The discourse that “smart people can explain things clearly” is ambiguous as to the meaning of “smart.”

• Someone who “knows a lot about a concept” can explain it in terms of smaller steps on a staircase. - wordy explanation.

• Smaller steps are less likely to be tripped over.

• But the size of the steps is inversely proportional to the number of steps it takes to reach the destination.

  • The more detailed the explanation, the more time it takes.

• A person who “knows a lot about a concept,” A, often overlooks

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• Mr. A tends to think that if the steps are small enough, anyone can climb up

  • Because I was able to climb up, I tend to assume that others will too
  • But many don’t have the patience to go that far.

• A’ noticed this and tended to remark, “If you don’t have the patience, it’s impossible to climb up.”

• This ‘A’ also overlooked something else.

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• Mr. ‘A’ assumes that “what Mr. B wants to get is flag X”.

  • So you can’t get it by climbing four steps, it’s impossible, think about it.
  • But would that be right?

• If Mr. B, who doesn’t know much about X, says “I want X,” he doesn’t mean it literally.

  • There is a wide range of what Mr. B really wants and desires.
  • The optimal goal will vary with the time cost that Mr. B can give within that range.
  • B’, who went for Y, was able to reach a “satisfactory result” in the same amount of time as B

• To teach correctly, we need to know what and how much Mr. B wants and how much time he can spend.

• There’s some oversight on Mr. B’s part.

  • In many cases, Mr. A is not willing to devote a lot of time and optimal teaching for individual B
    • To maximize Mr. B’s profit, it is best for Mr. A to learn more about Mr. B and offer him a path to Y
    • I wouldn’t do something that time-consuming unless I had a good relationship with them.
  • Unlike in school, where the relationship is “teacher-student,” in a relationship between adults, Mr. B must first be perceived by Mr. A as “worth his time to teach.

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