Every industry is full of non-technical hills that people plant their flag on. What is yours?

(The other post was technical hills. I changed the question to non-technical.)

  • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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    11 hours ago

    Which is why I mentioned other ways to explain things. If you’re dealing with a spatial problem but can’t draw what you are trying to explain, that is indicative that you don’t know what you’re dealing with.

    It’s the reason why I mentioned communication beyond the written word.

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      9 hours ago

      If you’re dealing with a spatial problem but can’t draw what you are trying to explain, that is indicative that you don’t know what you’re dealing with.

      I really feel like you’re digging in your heels on a fundamentally flawed point. Plenty of people are bad at drawing. That doesn’t make them bad at visualizing or reasoning spatially, or somehow invalidate the spatial understanding that they do have.

      My ability to explain things in Spanish isn’t all that well correlated with my internal knowledge of those things, but is more closely correlated with my Spanish skills in those subjects. At the same time, there are nonverbal people who understand stuff without the ability to meaningfully convey messages to other humans.

      The ability to communicate is its own skill, independent from other areas of knowledge, such that the correlation between ability to explain to others and the actual internal understanding is weak, at best.

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        9 hours ago

        You’re digging in your heels in that they only can communicate in one medium. You then pick a language which I don’t know what your competency is.

        If you can’t communicate an idea in any method of communication at all to a point where an educated person in that field can’t see what you’re trying to communicate, it shows that you don’t understand the idea. This is especially true if you can’t repeat the ideas in the media it was presented.

        How else is someone supposed to show how they understand an idea?