A closer look
Curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when an individual, communicating with other individuals, unknowingly assumes that the others have the background to understand. This infuriating phenomenon is exactly why your tech-savvy friend is physically incapable of explaining how to fix your router without using seventeen obscure acronyms and getting visibly angry when you look confused. Once we learn a piece of information, our brains permanently lose the ability to simulate what it was like to be ignorant of that fact, destroying our capacity for basic empathy. It guarantees that experts will almost always be terrible teachers, because they literally cannot comprehend the idea that someone else does not already possess the exact same specialized database of knowledge they spent ten years acquiring
