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Lorne's avatar

I’m intrigued.

Particularly when you recite

A long telephone number

Only to find the receiver

Has a poor memory,

Or no pen and paper.

:

Explanations need a receiver

A listener, if you like.

They also need testing

(How many times have you

Read instructions without them

Having been tested).

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Are we here to uncover

The Art of Explanation?

Or simply to find out

How the brain works and

How we understand things?

:

Lorne

Lee LeFever's avatar

Thanks for subscribing Lorne. You’ll see a bit of both. Having been the author of The Art of Explanation (2012) I’ve thought a lot about the “art.” This project represents a pivot into the mind and is more focused not on the explainer, but the audience and what makes it into memory and why. How one uses that information requires creativity and a degree of art.

Lorne's avatar

Funny! I had no idea you had written a book by the same name!

Bill Welter's avatar

This is needed. Thanks, looking forward to the series.

Lee LeFever's avatar

Thanks, Bill. The more I learn about this stuff the more I think it’s needed too.