TFTD: As you get better and better…

August 26, 2018 § Leave a comment

Social scientists call it the curse of knowledge. As the psychologist Sian Beilock, now the president of Barnard College, writes, “As you get better and better at what you do, your ability to communicate your understanding or to help others learn that skill often gets worse and worse.”

 

http://crookedtimber.org/2018/08/26/the-soft-bigotry-of-low-expectations/

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