DandomRude@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoMost things are not too complicated to explain, but are deliberately made more complicated than they actually are.message-squaremessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down137
arrow-up1-22arrow-down1message-squareMost things are not too complicated to explain, but are deliberately made more complicated than they actually are.DandomRude@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square13fedilink
minus-squareeskimofry@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 months agoThe problem is it’s incredibly hard to switch off the years of information accumulated in your brain and pretend to be a beginner when communicating your thoughts.
minus-squareEheran@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down3·4 months agoYou would not talk to a child/toddler/baby/… the way you talk to a colleague. So no, it is very easy to “switch off”, you just have to do it.
minus-squareMelmi@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·4 months agoTbf, I don’t often talk to children about work, and I don’t think most adults would want me to talk to them like a child. Plus, talking to children doesn’t come naturally to everyone. It’s certainly not fair to describe it as “very easy”.
minus-squareRaffster@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·4 months agoI always talked to my child as if she was an adult. So there’s that. She’s fine btw.
The problem is it’s incredibly hard to switch off the years of information accumulated in your brain and pretend to be a beginner when communicating your thoughts.
You would not talk to a child/toddler/baby/… the way you talk to a colleague. So no, it is very easy to “switch off”, you just have to do it.
Tbf, I don’t often talk to children about work, and I don’t think most adults would want me to talk to them like a child.
Plus, talking to children doesn’t come naturally to everyone. It’s certainly not fair to describe it as “very easy”.
I always talked to my child as if she was an adult. So there’s that. She’s fine btw.