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Does Writing Make You Smarter?
It depends which audience you’re focused on — the thousands of subscribers on your wish list, or the audience of one.
Because, the way I see it, it always starts with one person — YOU. Writing, like many other things you do in life, is a habit and a skill you practice every day in order to get better at it. It requires a ton of patience, self-discipline, introspection, research, and correcting mistakes which will inevitably happen, over and over. Ultimately, writing becomes a learning tool that can help you grow as a human being. In contrast, if you treat it only as a tool for gaining an audience you’re trying to impress or using it as platform to promote a certain lifestyle, you’re not even scratching the surface.
You can get smarter about a lot of things if you treat writing as a learning tool.
How?
By creating a space for your thoughts to develop and grow.
If you really think about it, when you write you create a physical space for your thoughts, whether that’s on your computer screen, notebook, or a piece of paper. Hundreds of thoughts pop in and out of our head every single day. They show up when we’re getting ready for work, on the bus or our daily commute, while we’re in the middle of a conversation with a friend. But there’s no time to really…
