Coaching practices for I Sprinkle in Terms That Are Just Second Nature to Me Without Even Hearing Them as Specialist Words Anymore and Afterward I Realize Half My Audience Quietly Checked Out the Moment I Dropped a Phrase That Only Makes Sense If You Live in My Field

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• I sprinkle in terms that are just second nature to me without even hearing them as specialist words anymore
• I’ve got an exam or a presentation coming up on something I’ve studied a lot, and I want to find out whether I actually get it
• There’s a subtle difference I can feel instantly
• I keep launching into explanations assuming people are starting from where I picture them, and I’m forever either talking over their heads or boring them with stuff they already know
• I read about this and it all felt obvious while I was reading

Practices that may help

1. Run a jargon audit on every key explanation
   Go word by word through your explanation and mark every term a newcomer would not know.
   The Curse of Knowledge: Why Experts Struggle to Teach
2. Explain it to a complete beginner
   Teach the concept in plain words to someone who knows nothing about it.
   The Feynman Technique, Step by Step
3. Develop a shared vocabulary for tacit distinctions
   Name the subtle distinctions you can detect but not yet explain — giving a word to a perception accelerates its transfer.
   Tacit Knowledge: The Skill You Can’t Fully Explain
4. Ask what the audience already knows before explaining
   Probe prior knowledge explicitly rather than assuming it.
   The Curse of Knowledge: Why Experts Struggle to Teach
5. Apply the explanation test to gauge real understanding
   If you can’t explain something simply without notes, you probably don’t understand it as well as you think.
   The Dunning-Kruger Effect, Understood Clearly
6. Explain it out loud to a real or imagined learner
   Actually say the explanation aloud, to a person, a pet, or an empty chair.
   The Protege Effect: Learn It Better by Teaching It
7. Use language mirroring in writing — match their words, not yours
   When someone describes a problem in their own words, use those words — not your substitute vocabulary.
   Mirroring and Matching, Made Practical
8. Seek conversations with people from radically different fields
   Let a conversation partner from another domain ask the naive questions that expose your hidden assumptions.
   Combinatorial Creativity, Made Practical
9. Pinpoint where the explanation breaks
   Treat every stumble, hand-wave, or jargon-grab as a flag for a real gap.
   The Feynman Technique, Step by Step
10. Take the tap test before you present
    Literally tap out a melody and notice how obvious it is to you — but invisible to listeners.
    The Curse of Knowledge: Why Experts Struggle to Teach

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