Writing
Writing is one of the few tools that can reliably change how you think. It forces you to commit to a line of thought and to turn half-formed ideas into something you can examine.
People who write regularly don’t just produce more and better work, they understand themselves and their work more clearly.
People who write regularly don’t just produce more and better work, they understand themselves and their work more clearly.
Ness Letters: Writing as Leverage
When you write about yourself solving a problem in vivid, present-tense detail, you’re not just daydreaming: you’re activating your prefrontal cortex and rewiring your reticular activating system, the part of your brain that determines what you notice in the world around you.
Magdalena Ponurska • The 20-Minute Writing Exercise That Neuroscientists Say Can Solve Your Hardest Problems
Writing is the connective tissue that creates understanding. We, as social creatures, often better perform rituals to form understanding one on one, but good writing enables us to understand each other at scale.