Timeline for How to deal politely with people asking about your job but unable to understand it?
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| Sep 6, 2017 at 17:24 | comment | added | Tzason | I get your good intentions, but it is somehow absurd that you turned the table as I am the one who should improve his ability to explain. I have absolutely no difficult in giving a nice explanation of things like Cantor's diagonal argument, indeed I did so a lot of times. But I explained them to students or very interested people, with a blackboard or a paper, and taking several minutes. Doing that after an introduction to someone is a totally different setting, do you think it would be appropriate saying (essentially): "now sit down and listen to my lesson..." ? | |
| Sep 6, 2017 at 15:27 | comment | added | Mr.Mindor | +1 for turning the difficulty around. "... I find it really difficult to explain..." vs. "You wouldn't have the background to understand." | |
| Sep 3, 2017 at 18:16 | history | edited | NVZ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 3, 2017 at 18:04 | history | answered | Chris F Carroll | CC BY-SA 3.0 |