3. When Knowing Too Much Can Hurt Your Communication: How to Make Complex Ideas Accessible

Think Fast Talk Smart: Communication Techniques

Think Fast Talk Smart

Communicating, Influence, Career Skills, Career, Business, Education, Leadership, Careers, Communication, Career Growth, Public Speaking, Language Learning, Improv

4.7 • 711 Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Presenting complex information for your audience to understand.

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0:00.0	We know from research that success isn't just about effort. It's about strategy, accountability, and of course, communication. And yet, when it comes to job transitions, promotions and salary negotiations, most people go it alone. That's where today's sponsor, Strawberry.combeer career coaching, comes in. Kylie, on the Think Fast Talk Smart team met with a strawberry.
0:21.0	dot me coach and found it really helpful. Kylie, how is your coach helping you in terms of
0:26.1	your career growth and personal development? From the very beginning, the whole process has helped
0:30.7	me to really reflect on how I want to move forward and define my goals. And then my coach Rashmi
0:35.8	took my ideas, helped make them tangible,
0:38.8	and suddenly I'm moving forward with actionable steps that I can manage in my life.
0:43.7	Wow. Sounds like your coach was super helpful. Absolutely.
0:47.4	Everyone can take advantage of a career coach. I certainly have throughout my life.
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1:00.6	slash smart. We've all been in situations where someone explained something to us that went over our heads or didn't land because it wasn't relevant or meaningful.
1:21.6	I'm Matt Abraham's. I teach strategic communication at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.
1:29.3	Welcome to Think Fast, Talk Smart, the podcast.
1:33.3	In this episode, we'll chat with Lauren Weinstein as we explore specific techniques you can use
1:40.3	to help your audience understand the complex information that you need them to.
1:45.4	In other words, we hope to find the antidote to the curse of knowledge.
1:50.2	Hey, Lauren, how are you doing?
1:51.7	Great, glad to be with you here today.
1:53.6	Like me, Lauren is a lecturer at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.
1:57.2	Together for over five years, we've co-taught a class on strategic communication. In addition to this work, she also has a very popular TEDx talk called Don't Believe Everything You Think.
2:06.6	So Lauren, as teachers and coaches, we often have to explain complex ideas so others can understand them.
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