In his book "Smart Thinking," Art Markman writes about the illusion of explanatory depth: By this, he means that we think we understand things better than we actually do.
One cure for this trap is to be a mentor, because the process encourages you to teach another person. In doing so, the mentor and the mentee will both understand and better address their own limitations.
From time to time, I take on interns and view it as my obligation to serve as a mentor to these young people. When I first started, my assumption was that knowledge would primarily flow in one direction — from me to them.
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