Scientific Definition
Forgetting what it's like not to know what you know.
Plain-English Definition
Forgetting what it's like not to know what you know.
Feynman Explanation
The strategy is clear — to the people who wrote it.
Core Principle
Forgetting what it's like not to know what you know.
Mechanisms
Forgetting what it's like not to know what you know.
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Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
The strategy is clear — to the people who wrote it.
Examples
- An exec launches a vision the front line cannot decode.
- Communication failures rebranded as 'alignment issues.'
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Test strategy clarity with people three layers from the room it was written in.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
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We overweight whoever has the bigger title in the room.
Adopting beliefs because the room already did.
Spending disproportionate energy on trivial decisions.
Diffused responsibility means nothing happens.
Once we say it publicly, we'll defend it past the data.
Assuming everyone secretly agrees with us.
Their failure: character. Our failure: situation.
Low expectations produce low performance.
One strong trait colors judgment of unrelated traits.
We extend more trust, benefit of the doubt, and rope to 'our people.'
We're more persuaded by people we like.
We see 'them' as more uniform than 'us.'