I Took a Brain Dump Daily For The Last Month. Reflections On Writing 17040 Words For 30 days Straight.
Path to clarity is the mix of doing and thinking while one reinforces another
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Itās certainly not about the number.
17040 is less than regular writers write in a day.
Even when Iām writing long-form articles, itād take me 3 to 5 pieces to get to that number.
Brain Dump was a sort-of experiment. Letās write for 30 days straight. Donāt keep anything as a draft and just put out a piece (short or long) a day.
Hereās a quick overview of what Iāve learned and what I think is in it for all of us.
Life happens faster when in motion
Time is relative.
And although we canāt see the ārealā difference in how times passes, we can definitely feel such a difference sense-wise.
When weāre in the motion - walking, driving, going from point A to point B - life happens fast. Or at least faster than if we had spent the same period laying in our bed.
Doing things brings this motion to life.
Things suddenly happen, the cycle begins and one thing is the birth of another.
When we decide to take action and get going life does so as well.
Writing helps thinking
Weāre all thinking beings.
We have thoughts, we make decisions, we analyze, we break things down.
And yet, itās often hard to get something out of these processes. It can quickly get blurry and because our thoughts donāt have any point of reference, itās hard for us to make use of them.
Writing helps get over that issue by distilling your thoughts onto paper or atoms on your hard drive (ekhmā¦ āļø).
It is nothing else that pouring your thoughts onto a physical data medium that lets you organize them, store them, share them, and make greater things out of them.
If you want to āget better at thinkingā or, in other words, make your thoughts more useful start writing.
Path to clarity is the mix of doing and thinking while one reinforces another
The clarity in everyday life is what we all strive for.
The feeling of going in the right direction can change how confident weāre at doing what weāre doing. Plus, it gets us moving forward.
Yet, itās often hard to get to the state of clarity and I think the answer to it lays in the interception between doing and thinking.
While thinking is the act of connecting dots in your brain, doing is the act of making these connections tangible.
Without each other, theyāre more or less useless.
Thinking without doing is a life of misery. Knowing - theoretically, but not executing, practically.
On the other hand, doing without thinking is a life of blindness. Trying to cut the tree with a shovel.
But when we harness both and make them work for the same cause, great things can happen.
The thinking process brings to your life ideas, revolutions, and ways you can manipulate the world. Doing is how you can execute all that.
Then, when doing is behind the wheel, the thinking process gets fed with new ideas, revolutions, and ways to manipulate whatever youāre doing.
Alone theyāre headless horsemen. Together theyāre unstoppable.
Whatās next?
Writing is fun. I must admit.
But I want to write for others, not for myself.
Brain Dump was all in, all out creation process.
I wanted to share whatever the inspiration was for that day. Now, I want to switch (not necessarily on this particular platform - Brain Dump) to a more organized mode.
I touched many different topics from different industries and while this is fun, I want to have fun while helping people achieve their goals.
For the next couple of days, I want to gather feedback, analyze the content, and decide what would be the best format that people (a specific group) would be interested in reading.
If you liked a particular post or two, let me know.
If it ties into what youāre doing, even better.
If your colleagues also liked it, the best.
And lastly, for anyone that had been sitting on the idea to start writing donāt hesitate. Itās never a bad decision!