If you take something that most people find simple, and you make it complex, people might think your smart, or think your wasting their time.
If you take something that most people find complex, and keep it complex, people will still be confused.
If you take something most people find simple and keep it simple, people will find it irrelevant.
If you take something most people find complex and make it simple, people will find it informative.
I'm not sure where the idea of making something complex, simple makes people lose respect for you comes from. Its possible the assumptions don't actually match the reality if what you talk about isn't actually that complex, but you deem it so.
I honestly see no value for information that takes something simple and makes it complex. It's less informative, helps less people, and wastes everyone's time. It might make you seem smarter, but the best teachers are the ones that take the most complex topics and make them simple.
That's true. I also thought about, if people struggle with some idea but them finally see your post of explaining it so simple, then they may find you are awesome, to make it so simple to understand.
The catch is if somebody understand it just a little bit (such as the CEO or program manager), and then they see something complicated and think it is worthy, vs if it is something so easy to understand, they think it is too simple basic.
I'm not sure why the "catch" is if a CEO or program manager finds something easy to understand. I would hope neither of these people believe they fully understand a complex topic after learning just a little bit, as that makes them sound very gullible.
interesting... back in the high school period when I was in Asia learning Physics and Calculus, I think both the textbooks and teachers wanted to make them so difficult to understand so that there is a lot of respect... after learning them a lot more in a university, I found that they are actually so simple to understand, and can be explained so that even a 10 year old can understand them. I got straight A's in all engineering physics and calculus classes, and I was able to run into one math and one physics teacher that understood calculus and physics so well that they open my eyes for both these subjects... it is true that I have a lot of respect for these two teachers... but only because I had a really hard time in high school understanding these topics...
For the Dunning-Kruger effect, it remains me of, when I graduated and worked in the industry 2, 3 years long long time ago, sometimes I would see some 18 year old who think they know everything about the world... probably they get disillusioned when they went into sophomore and junior years in a university... and if they could, break out of them after they graduate... it is the more we learn, the more we found out it is a lot more that we don't understand (yet).
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Depends on the topic right?
I'm not sure where the idea of making something complex, simple makes people lose respect for you comes from. Its possible the assumptions don't actually match the reality if what you talk about isn't actually that complex, but you deem it so.
I honestly see no value for information that takes something simple and makes it complex. It's less informative, helps less people, and wastes everyone's time. It might make you seem smarter, but the best teachers are the ones that take the most complex topics and make them simple.
That's true. I also thought about, if people struggle with some idea but them finally see your post of explaining it so simple, then they may find you are awesome, to make it so simple to understand.
The catch is if somebody understand it just a little bit (such as the CEO or program manager), and then they see something complicated and think it is worthy, vs if it is something so easy to understand, they think it is too simple basic.
I'm not sure why the "catch" is if a CEO or program manager finds something easy to understand. I would hope neither of these people believe they fully understand a complex topic after learning just a little bit, as that makes them sound very gullible.
This entire conversation reminds of the Dunning-Kruger effect
interesting... back in the high school period when I was in Asia learning Physics and Calculus, I think both the textbooks and teachers wanted to make them so difficult to understand so that there is a lot of respect... after learning them a lot more in a university, I found that they are actually so simple to understand, and can be explained so that even a 10 year old can understand them. I got straight A's in all engineering physics and calculus classes, and I was able to run into one math and one physics teacher that understood calculus and physics so well that they open my eyes for both these subjects... it is true that I have a lot of respect for these two teachers... but only because I had a really hard time in high school understanding these topics...
For the Dunning-Kruger effect, it remains me of, when I graduated and worked in the industry 2, 3 years long long time ago, sometimes I would see some 18 year old who think they know everything about the world... probably they get disillusioned when they went into sophomore and junior years in a university... and if they could, break out of them after they graduate... it is the more we learn, the more we found out it is a lot more that we don't understand (yet).