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The root cause of bad writing is struggling to imagine what it is like for someone else not to know something that you know. Whenever writing is loaded with jargon, clichés, technical terms, and abbreviations, two questions come to mind:

1. What is the writer is trying...

• "Not yet" instead of "I failed" puts you on a learning curve and a path into the future.
• It breaks the obsession with 'now'..."I am a failure". But with a 'not yet', you get..." I don't know how to do the well yet".
• The idea that abilities ca...

At times, you may get stuck. To get out of it, switch to a "meta" task, meaning shift to a more abstract layer of a problem such as figuring out why you're stuck.

For example, if you are writing an essay and don't know what to write, switching to a meta task would mean writing about how...