I've just started this article series and already it's incredible (h/t ), but the one thing I think it's missing is that we *do* have a way to communicate tacit knowledge, and that is storytelling commoncog.com/blog/the-tacit
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Hmm, interesting. I've been chewing on using the narrative heuristic more effectively for learning, but I'll need to think about whether it applies. (See also: twitter.com/ejames_c/statu)
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One benefit of accepting that the brain functions on heuristics is that you may embrace learning techniques that lean into this.
E.g.: the narrative heuristic.
Bad: cognitive bias when interpreting data.
Good: embed lessons in a story to remember those lessons better.
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I suppose the CTA approach deploys storytelling in order to extract tacit knowledge, but that's a more NDM domain specific thing. I'm having difficulty, I suppose, because I've dived deep into the story structure literature, and there aren't many direct uses for that here.
I'm not especially familiar with any of this except by reputation and personal experience, so I'm not certain exactly which story structure literature you're referring to, but I tend to think of story structure as culturally encoded (c.f. three-act vs kishōtenketsu)
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Culture is itself a shared body of explicit and tacit knowledge, but I think the tacit knowledge you describe acquiring and teaching (or at least, creating learning environments conducive to its acquisition) is, for want of a better word, higher frequency
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