If You Are a Thinker, You Have to Be a Writer

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have experienced it many times. I wanted to write something, but I didn’t have the time — <i>or the tools</i> — to write, and the idea kept bouncing in my head for some time until it just vanished. Sometimes, my thoughts take me back to a point, but at other times, I forget everything about how I felt something different and unique.</p><p id="bdfd">The more complex your thoughts, the more crucial it is for you to write them down.</p><p id="5a72">I have often observed that once I have written down my thoughts on paper, my mind starts <i>looking </i>for a new idea. <b>If I don’t write, my mind doesn’t think about ideas that need to be written down.</b></p><p id="2ed0">Our minds need props to support them. They need tools to help them expand their boundaries. If you write down every idea that comes to your mind, you’ll have even more ideas popping into your head.</p><p id="5b71">Writing is a kind of <i>training for thinking</i> as well. It makes your thoughts more ordered and coherent because you can see how your thoughts look on paper.</p><p id="3232">If your thoughts are too intricate, you’ll need to write more words — <i>and compose smart sentences</i> — to make them understandable for someone who doesn’t know the ideas involved in your thinking. The more you write, the more you become capable of expressing complex thoughts in presentable ways.</p><p id="5b69">When people understand what you are trying to say, they can appreciate the depth of your knowledge and understanding of life. If they enjoy reading your articles and comment that they learned something from your writing, it provides you with an incentive to think and write more.</p><p id="ed19">It is li

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ke the <i>swing</i>.</p><p id="0335">Every time you write, you give yourself a gentle push. The readers read your work, and it may raise your value in their eyes if they like your writing — <i>thinking</i> — style. Your worth goes up with every well-written piece, and then you push yourself a little more: to think more and to write more.</p><div id="6c6a" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/my-curated-stories-on-medium-that-encourage-me-to-keep-on-writing-8520435e81f"> <div> <div> <h2>My Long List of Curated Stories on Medium That Encourages Me to Keep Writing— Updated</h2> <div><h3>These stories were curated and distributed into different topics</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*em-WnC8Go2HslZgGmuGhRg.jpeg)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><div id="8991" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/has-medium-pulled-the-plug-on-its-curation-program-a2bab9036310"> <div> <div> <h2>Has Medium Pulled the Plug on Its Curation Program</h2> <div><h3>Is it true that curation is no longer important</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/1*n_wQ9jrM_L6cs6rOlsP2tg.png)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div></article></body>

‘To write or not to write’ is not a question for most thinkers

Have you ever seen someone swinging on a swing? Did you notice how she gently pushed herself with each swing and went higher and higher as long as she kept trying?

That is true for you as well if you are a thinker. You have to write daily. If you don’t write regularly, your push will start waning, and your mind will not swing to more complex ideas.

If you are not striving to get better at something, you are bound to get worse. So, keep challenging yourself every day.

Writing is nothing but thinking on paper — William Zinsser said in his book, On Writing Well. If you are a muddy thinker, you’ll be a sloppy writer.

But if you are a thinker and you can see thoughts, and you can feel ideas developing inside you, you have to write.

Writing is the best way to let go of the complex thoughts happening in your mind. If you don’t write your ideas, they will fade, and you will not even remember having those visions.

I have experienced it many times. I wanted to write something, but I didn’t have the time — or the tools — to write, and the idea kept bouncing in my head for some time until it just vanished. Sometimes, my thoughts take me back to a point, but at other times, I forget everything about how I felt something different and unique.

The more complex your thoughts, the more crucial it is for you to write them down.

I have often observed that once I have written down my thoughts on paper, my mind starts looking for a new idea. If I don’t write, my mind doesn’t think about ideas that need to be written down.

Our minds need props to support them. They need tools to help them expand their boundaries. If you write down every idea that comes to your mind, you’ll have even more ideas popping into your head.

Writing is a kind of training for thinking as well. It makes your thoughts more ordered and coherent because you can see how your thoughts look on paper.

If your thoughts are too intricate, you’ll need to write more words — and compose smart sentences — to make them understandable for someone who doesn’t know the ideas involved in your thinking. The more you write, the more you become capable of expressing complex thoughts in presentable ways.

When people understand what you are trying to say, they can appreciate the depth of your knowledge and understanding of life. If they enjoy reading your articles and comment that they learned something from your writing, it provides you with an incentive to think and write more.

It is like the swing.

Every time you write, you give yourself a gentle push. The readers read your work, and it may raise your value in their eyes if they like your writing — thinking — style. Your worth goes up with every well-written piece, and then you push yourself a little more: to think more and to write more.