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Quick Hits are 10-minute conversations designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to hear other people‘s thoughts on a variety of subjects. In February of 2021 I and the members of my mastermind group thought other people might enjoy listening in on some of the lively conversations we were having. But we realized that no one was going spend 90-minutes listening to us going on about anything and sometimes nothing. Instead, we decided to pick one topic and have a short conversation to share. I took the reigns because facilitating those types of conversations sounded like fun. Over the course of a few months it grew from just members of our mastermind group to four (sometimes three if schedules go sideways) people from various parts of the world and from ”short” to exactly 10-minutes. Thus was born ”Quick Hits” hosted by me, Dr Robyn. I hope to get caught up with posting them here on PodBean at some point. As of this writing, I have over 100 ”episodes.” If you‘d like to see the videos of these conversations, they are available on my YouTube channel: https://bit.ly/DrRobynQuickHits If you have a topic you‘d like to hear discussed, I encouraged you to use the contact page of my website: https://drrobynodegaard.com/ to let me know.
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Thursday Jan 05, 2023
Thursday Jan 05, 2023
Experts often spend so much time with their subject that its most complicated minutia becomes second nature. They can quote facts, figures, articles and theories at any time or place. While this might be impressive (or maybe annoying), it is an issue when the expert speaks to someone who is new to the subject. They’re so in the weeds that they can’t adequately explain their subject to someone on the outside.
I feel it’s important to remind experts that they shouldn’t assume that everything they know is common knowledge. So when I had the opportunity to speak to three other people with doctoral degrees I thought it was a great opportunity for us to look in the mirror and ask the question.
Dr. Bob Choat quoted from Albert Einstein: “If you can’t explain something to a six-year-old, then you don’t know what you’re talking about. Those that tend to complicate even simple concepts, they have no understanding of it at all.”
Performance consultant Dr. Jenna Ross suggested that we bear in mind when our excitement for our subject leads us to over-explain. “There’s so much that I know that I want to share and sometimes I forget to keep it simple and not expound upon this idea that goes to this idea…Sometimes I go overboard.”
Grand Canyon University professor Dr. Rhonda Bompensa-Zimmerman advised that we let the expert know beforehand how best we learn. “I find it my responsibility to let the other person know, ‘Hey, I’m a kinesthetic tactile learner, so can we do some role playing? Break the information down into smaller chunks?’”
How have you had success getting an expert to explain something in a way that you could understand?
Connect with the panelists:
Dr. Bob Choat: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobchoat/
Dr. Jenna Ross: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennaross712/
Dr. Rhonda Bompensa-Zimmerman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rhonda-bompensa-zimmerman-138aa3b/
Dr Robyn Odegaard: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynodegaard/
Want a summary of the Quick Hits I post every week, plus the links to the LinkedIn pages of each of the panelist to show up in your in-box every week? Just let me know where to send it: https://drrobynodegaard.com/quick-hits-notifications/
#QuickHits are designed to exercise your brain by letting you listen in on an unscripted conversation to get other people's thoughts on pertinent subjects. If you would like to join a conversation or have a topic you would like to hear discussed, please message me. https://www.DrRobynOdegaard.com
#Experts #ExplainBetter
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