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Side view of the Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi from the north-west, showing the imposing structure of the Basilica and monastery located in Assisi, Umbria, Italy. Today (4th October) is the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi, Patron of Ecologists.

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A spoken version of the English Wikipedia article on the curse of knowledge as of December 2019.
The curse of knowledge, also called the curse of expertise or expert's curse, is a cognitive bias that occurs when a person who has specialized knowledge assumes that others share in that knowledge or has difficulty to put themselves in the position of the person with less knowledge.

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