Humanity Needs a Writer Like You

Why we live in a blessed time for content creators

The other day, while taking my shower, I was struck by a simple yet exceptional thought. We can give birth to what’s in our minds. Sounds simple?

We can think of something and make it real the next day. Not only do we do it, but we do it better than any other species.

Crow’s mind thinks about eating nuts. So crows drop nuts on the road below traffic lights. Why do they do this? When it turns green, cars drive on the nut. They break its shells giving the crow’s mind what it wants.

The human mind wants good food, a beautiful home near nature, live a long time without getting too bored. He wants to travel around the world. Conquer its most hostile places. So humans have built; Cities, cars, money, and jobs. He organized all this so that we do things for each other, but not directly, and people thanks us with coins we can then exchange to obtain not-directly favors from other humans. He built a society.

Why We Don’t Experience “Groundhog Day”

It’s crazy! All of what’s surrounding us was eventually born from someone’s mind. Think about the seat of your chair. The height of your desk, its materials. The shape of an electrical outlet. Fermented barley to get ourselves drunk on Saturday night—with beers.

We started naked in the wood, and we’re now sitting comfortably reading stuff someone writes at some point on a pocket-size device that can do a lot of other cool stuff.

The bottom line that makes all this possible is communication. We don’t live in “Groundhog Day”—the film—because of the successive invention of speech, writing, printing, and digital communication.

Picture this; you’ve just been born. And. Impossible to communicate with your fellow men.

You have to feel sick to discover what’s eatable. Learn how to keep yourself safe. Learn how to make fire. Learn how to construct tools. Cook. Get friends. Get loves. Found a family. All way up to the breakthrough discoveries your parents made when they passed away. An entire life to arrive at about the same point.

We may have a big brain, but what allowed him to dominate the world is his ability to cooperate with other big brains.

Unprecedented Access to Knowledge

Dogs used to bark to communicate with each other. We have an entire universe of sounds our vocal cords can produce.

Dogs pee on trees to leave marks on others. We learned to draw complex shapes to construct words.

• Spending the evening listening to the village’s wise old man near a campfire wasn’t enough to memorize where is the nearest forest full of edible berries. We’ve invented writing. And so, plans.
• Copying the best seller books of the time — the Bible — to spread the word wasn’t fast. We’ve invented printing.
• Waiting days to hear back from your best friend to plan your summer trip. Nah, forget you have emails and texts.

We have now digitized it all. Lots of ‘0’ and ‘1’ produce electrical impulses, displaying letters on screens or playing sounds in headsets. We can now access anything instantly. But. Above all. We can take part in all this.

Don’t you get it? It has taken millennia to get to this point. Where inequality no longer exists.

The word is no longer for the elite. You and I can add our genius to the geniuses of all other big brains.

Sharing Your Writings

I write because I love to do it.

I write because I feel I am learning.

I write because eventually, people will read and like it. And, maybe. Maybe it will spark a fire in their heart. Change their vision of something.

I’m no one, but the Internet is a place where I can express myself. Here, I can give birth to ideas. Ideas can then spread to a level never equaled in the history of humanity. A text can be read, shared, tweeted, turned into videos, podcasts. The leverage is infinite.

“Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.” — Archimedes

When a topic piques my curiosity, I talk about it around me, and after a test period, I can confidently decide whether or not it’s worth writing.

The writing process is quite demanding but incredibly pleasing. An idea interrupts my brain’s routine. Briefly sticks into my mind. In the beginning, it’s a blurry picture I can barely see. So I quickly try to capture it. I write some first words, and as if by magic, the blurry image becomes clearer. After 3 to 5 rewrites, the idea becomes crystal clear and stuck on paper forever.

With writing, not only do I clarify my thoughts, but I freeze them in space and time. Then I’ll share it with you.

Humanity needs you to express your ideas, the little things that make you unique and passionate. But more importantly, writing will benefit you. You have the opportunity more than any other civilization to do it. Don’t miss this chance!