Write to escape your default setting – kupajo

Writing expands your working memory, lets you be more brilliant on paper than you can be in person. While some of this brilliance comes from enabling us to connect larger and larger ideas, much of it comes from stopping, uh… non-brilliance. Writing reveals what you don’t know, what you can’t see when an idea is only held in your head. Biases, blind spots, and assumptions you can’t grasp internally.

“Reading maketh a full man… writing maketh an exact man.”

~Francis Bacon

At its best, writing (and reading) can expose the ugly, uncomfortable, or unrealistic parts of your thoughts. It can pluck out parasitic ideas burrowed so deeply that they imperceptibly steer your feelings and beliefs. Sometimes this uprooting will reveal that the lustrous potential of a new idea is a mirage, or that your understanding of someone’s motive is incomplete. Or maybe writing will help you see your own projected bullshit reflected back to you.

— Read on kupajo.com/write-to-escape-your-default-setting/