The feeling of something being obvious or easy [...] doesn’t mean that [it] is obvious or easy to everybody. It just means that you have understood it. When you deeply understand something it becomes obvious and easy over time.
The feeling of something being obvious or easy in the above sense can be mistaken sometimes. It is an intuition or heuristic our brain applies I guess to figure out which things we are supposed to know in a tribe. It can be put on more solid footing by spelling out things and being forced to make intuitions explicit.
My 5-second take is basically what Gunnar_Zarncke already said. If you’re finding difficulty writing something clearly, it might mean you don’t understand it as clearly as you think. Maybe you understand 90%, and you gloss over the unclear 10%. Writing it out (or trying to fully explain it to someone) forces you to work through that 10%.
Some puzzles:
rubber ducking is really effective
it’s very difficult to write things clearly, even if you understand them clearly
These seem like they should be related, but I don’t quite know how. Maybe if someone thought about it for an hour they could figure it out.
Related: As I wrote just recently:
https://www.facebook.com/Xuenay/posts/10161257148333662?comment_id=10161257444543662
The feeling of something being obvious or easy in the above sense can be mistaken sometimes. It is an intuition or heuristic our brain applies I guess to figure out which things we are supposed to know in a tribe. It can be put on more solid footing by spelling out things and being forced to make intuitions explicit.
My 5-second take is basically what Gunnar_Zarncke already said. If you’re finding difficulty writing something clearly, it might mean you don’t understand it as clearly as you think. Maybe you understand 90%, and you gloss over the unclear 10%. Writing it out (or trying to fully explain it to someone) forces you to work through that 10%.
You might be better at writing than I am.