There were times I've been ask to explain a topic. Not even very complicated. And I run into conclusion that although I thought I know the concept myself and know how to use it it's still quite hard to explain it to person with hmmm... Not even less but with different background.
Since then I've been able to setup new personal definition of 'understanding topic' :
"It's impossible to know everything. But you understand a concept good enough if you know how to use it and you're able to explain it to other person independent of their experience level*"
*of course we should put here some common sense - I'm talking about a developer not someone completely not related to area of this concept
""It's impossible to know everything. But you understand a concept good enough if you know how to use it and you're able to explain it to other person independent of their experience level*""
It's my recent motivation motto I came up when a friend of my ask me to define my actual career goals as something I can actually checked as done.
It's also useful buseful for me in process of preparing for a job interview, as I very often get frustrated when I did not know some detail or quirk about a concept :P
But after discussing this with a friend of mine I've just needed to update this thought today with one more condition and conclusion :P
the person you are explaining it to ... actually should WANT TO LEARN and understand :P
this rule doesn't mean you should stop digging deeper into concepts, especially if enjoy learning :)
Malgosia Stepniak
@malgosiastp
My personal rule from now on:
It's impossible to know everything. But you understand concept good enough if you're able to MAKE USE OF IT and you can EXPLAIN IT successfully to another person* regardless of one's experience.
I think more than you can actually imagine.
There were times I've been ask to explain a topic. Not even very complicated. And I run into conclusion that although I thought I know the concept myself and know how to use it it's still quite hard to explain it to person with hmmm... Not even less but with different background.
Since then I've been able to setup new personal definition of 'understanding topic' :
"It's impossible to know everything. But you understand a concept good enough if you know how to use it and you're able to explain it to other person independent of their experience level*"
*of course we should put here some common sense - I'm talking about a developer not someone completely not related to area of this concept
Hey Malgosia,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I ❤️this. Gonna have to borrow it from you :)
Glad you like it :)
It's my recent motivation motto I came up when a friend of my ask me to define my actual career goals as something I can actually checked as done.
It's also useful buseful for me in process of preparing for a job interview, as I very often get frustrated when I did not know some detail or quirk about a concept :P
But after discussing this with a friend of mine I've just needed to update this thought today with one more condition and conclusion :P