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Writing is the best personal growth tool
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Building a writing habit
- Writing helps you better remember what you read, even if you're just taking notes.
- When it comes to personal growth, writing helps you generate new ideas, set goals, keep a journal, or increase your ability to understand.
- It's also a main component of the mindframing method to get things done.
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Mindframing
It is about actively shaping your mind frames to reach your goals. If your goal is to learn or create, three mindframes will yield the most progress.
- Growth mindset - you don't see your abilities as fixed and see failures as opportunities for growth.
- Self-authorship - You don't rely on external authorities to define your beliefs and values.
- Metacognition - being able to see what you know and don't know and creating strategies for learning and problem-solving.
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Writing to shape your mind frames
Taking the time to write can quickly increase your ability to shape your mind frames to achieve your goals.
- Growth mindset. It would be absurd to always write about the exact same thing. Writing regularly will push you to progress and keep learning.
- Self-authorship. Writing is an act of self-authorship where you define your own voice and express your own values and beliefs.
- Metacognition. Writing your thoughts down will compel you to think about your thinking. Any vague ideas need to be clearly defined.
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The PARI steps
Mindframing consists of four PARI steps.
- You first create a Pact with yourself or others.
- Then you Act on it by studying the topic you committed to master.
- You React to the content you studied by producing and publishing your own content.
- You create something or work on a project with a bigger Impact that puts everything you learned into practice.
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How to incorporate writing in your mindframing practice
Writing helps you at every step in your mindframing process.
- Pact. Writing down your commitment will enable you to stick to it. It is even better to write it somewhere public, such as a tweet or a blog article.
- Act. Documenting your learning or creative process encourages you to keep working towards your goal - for example, a specific hashtag or a newsletter with a fixed schedule.
- React. This step is about producing content. Writing is a quick way to create your version of what you learned.
- Impact. The objective is to create something bigger. Writing about the process can help consolidate your knowledge while making it easier to share with the world.
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"Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
Sylvia Plath
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