Takes time and commitment to share understanding or knowledge. Takes engagement from both parties, there must be some form of 'fair' exchange and more 'action' than surface interpretation.
In a formal education environment, this motivation is helped by the fees you or the government pay for sharing content and formal assessment. In the wider world, you will have to ask engaging questions to build reciprocity, keep energy levels high, perhaps by adding a little creative abrasion.
What then are some of these barriers?:
1) expert(s) often do not know how to tell what they know - often they do not know what they know, it is tacit
2) experts do not know what you do not know and often they are unaware of what they know that can help until it is surfaced via dialog & inquiry.
3) expert knowledge consists of complex patterns in context, they make an intuitive leap to interventions and solutions after finding & matching patterns based on 'fuzzy' conditions.
4) there must be a common language, not just speaking the same words, but some appreciation for the others mental models, assumptions, values and goals.
5) there must be a clear expression of 'need' and gaps, often non-experts lack the background & structure to express their knowledge and information needs and must be helped to 'see the larger picture'.
Barriers to using explicit knowledge / information to promote shared understanding:
* no joint purpose or mental models
* no shared distinctions, assumptions and meaning
* no engagement in community reflection and feedback
* no opportunity to feel, experience and practice
* no way to learn from failure
May I suggest you read a review article on interpretation or the writings of Douglas Hofstadter. This will give you a feel for the issues of being receptive to different meanings in a textual or visual medium.
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