The beginner needs a first exercise, not the expert’s entire map of the subject.

Experts hand over the whole landscape because that is what they can see from where they stand. A map is only useful to someone who already knows their position on it, and a beginner has none. What they need is one thing to do today, small enough to finish and specific enough to fail at usefully. The overview becomes valuable much later, once there is something for it to organize.

As you teach anything this week, give a single first exercise and stop there. Keep the context, the exceptions and the history for a later conversation. If they ask for the bigger picture, give a sentence rather than the tour.