Know What Details to Leave Out
When you understand a concept, it's easy to think of every detail as important, but when you're trying to explain that complicated concept to someone else, you should leave certain details out.
Your main objective is to get a point across and help someone understand a difficult concept. Strange terminology, names, or specific processes rarely matter.
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Leave out unnecessary details
When you understand a concept, you can find it’s all-to-easy to fall into the trap of thinking every detail is important.
Your immediate objective is to get the main points across to help others understand a difficult concept. Describing too many details to others unnec...
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If you can't explain it with simple words, you don't really understand it. So write out everything you know about a subject as if you were teaching it to someone else.
Go beyond the professional jargon and assess if you really understand that complicated terminology.
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