Writing Doesn’t Record Your Thoughts, It Is Your Thinking
James Clear, a bestselling author, once said that he doesn’t write to record his thoughts, but to figure out what he even thinks about a topic.
Think about it: without writing, it isn’t simply that we would have tons of unrecorded ideas, bumping around in our skull, but that those ideas wouldn’t exist. They are created by the act of writing, much more so than they are being recorded.
If you don’t write regularly, the quality of your thinking suffers. Writing gives you access to an external brain, sharpens your ideas and makes your thoughts smarter.
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It is often difficult to establish what we think before we have put it down in words. In many cases, we simply do not know what we want to say until we have tried to say it. After all, writing is thinking on paper, isn’t it?
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