A quote from The Complete Essays
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A quote from The Complete Essays
Paul Graham put it this way: “A good writer doesn’t just think, and then write down what he thought, as a sort of transcript. A good writer will almost always discover new things in the process of writing.”
Mind ability = Improvable = 1. Knowledge level * 2. Thinking speed * 3. Synthesis ability — Cloud Streaks
The measure of a man’s thinking is in how those words are transformed, the measure of a man’s thinking is what he does with other people’s words, they must penetrate him deeply, they must penetrate him to the core, they must filter through his piled-up experiences and opinions, and they must return transformed.
Antoine Wilson • Panorama City
Joan Didion noted, “I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking.”
David C. Baker • The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
We tend to think we understand what we read – until we try to rewrite it in our own words.
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
Joan Didion said, “I don’t know what I think until I write about it.”)