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The curse of knowledge: Why experts struggle to explain their work | MIT Sloan

The curse of knowledge explains why experts struggle to communicate with nonexperts due to their inability to unknow what they've learned, making context invisible to them. Miro Kazakoff from MIT Sloan proposes using headlines instead of labels in presentations as a practical solution to bridge this communication gap.

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The curse of knowledge explains why experts struggle to communicate with nonexperts due to their inability to unknow what they've learned, making context invisible to them. Miro Kazakoff from MIT Sloan proposes using headlines instead of labels in presentations as a practical solution to bridge this communication gap.

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curse-of-knowledge · expert-communication · presentation-skills · encoding-decoding · business-communication · audience-comprehension

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Miro Kazakoff (person, 0.95) · MIT Sloan (organization, 0.95) · curse of knowledge (concept, 0.98) · encoding-decoding process (concept, 0.92) · The curse of knowledge: Why smart professionals struggle to explain their work (event, 0.9) · professional communication (concept, 0.88)

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