[SEQ RERUN] Teaching the Unteachable

Today’s post, Teaching the Unteachable was originally published on 03 March 2009. A summary (taken from the LW wiki):

There are many things we do that we can’t easily understand how we do them. Teaching them is therefore a challenge.


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