A chess lesson becomes clearer when the teacher names the threat a beginner has not learned to see.

Teaching is largely the business of pointing. A beginner is not failing to think; they are looking at a position where the danger has no name yet, so their attention slides across it. The moment someone says what to look at, the same board reorganises itself and the lesson sticks, because the learner has been given a category rather than a verdict.

When you explain something to a newcomer, name the thing they are not seeing instead of handing them the right answer. And when you are the beginner, ask directly what you should be looking at. It is a faster question than what you should do.