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Writing to clarify thoughts | benkuhn.net

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I’m wondering about why writing things down helps you think about them even though writing is vastly inferior to thinking as a medium for information.

People often talk about how writing well is useful because it helps clarify your thoughts on a topic. This always seemed a little strange to me. I already think mostly in language! 1 It's even pretty good language most of the time! 2 And thoughts are way more flexible than text, as I'm sure anyone who's tried to write something complex would agree. So there's not much reason to believe writing things down would help. Yet it does-even writing this post helped me think about its point better. Why does this happen? Ideas in your head are part of a massive web of different thoughts that have accum

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