This is hidden brain.
I'm Shankar Vedanta.
Each day, teachers all over the world try to explain new ideas to their students.
Sometimes it goes well.
The teacher conveys information, the students absorb it.
But many times, things get stuck.
Students get frustrated, and so do their teachers.
The transmission of ideas gets bogged down in a morass of failed expectations.
I remember an exchange I had with my own father.
I must have been around ten.
He was trying to teach me a math concept.
The order of division before subtraction, multiplication before addition.
I didn't get it.
He thought it ought to be easy.
He got frustrated.
I felt stupid.
The worst part was that all the psychological turmoil got us nowhere.
At the end of the day, he had failed to teach me something he knew, and I had failed to learn something I could have mastered.
In fact, I might have internalized the wrong lessons, that I was bad at math, or that my father thought poorly of me.
What does he think of me?