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u’ll make a fortune! Maybe not, but I can help people who don’t have as much time as they’d like for reading to discover interesting new words. I’ve decided to write about these two words I’m particularly enjoying right now.The first is hypergraphia. It just sounds cool. It’s a pleasure to say. Hypergraphia is the urge to write or draw. It can be extreme enough to be a behavioural condition. People have been known to write all over the walls, and then on the toilet paper as well. I never had it that bad, but as a child I would get through countless sheets of paper, drawing, sketching, and doodling. I understand now that paper isn’t free, and neither is toilet paper, which I never took to writing on. Later in my life, I began filling notebooks and journals. I have them piled up on the bookshelf and wardrobes at my parents’ house. I always just put it down to creativity, but now I have another way to talk about it. It’s almost hypergraphia.I don’t have hypergraphia. I just love writing. And I think I still love drawing as well.The other new word is satisficing. This on

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e really is a new word. It was coined by Herbert Simon, Nobel Prize winner and one of the founders of organization theory. Satisficing is a combination of the words satisfying and sufficing. It is what we are doing when we accept something that is good enough, but not necessarily the best. Satisficing is what we do when decisions really aren’t that important, like which loaf of bread to buy, because we do not have unlimited decision-making capacity. By satisficing on the little things, of which there are a very large number, we can conserve our energy for making decisions about the important things.I read about Satisficing in the book The Organised Mind, by Daniel Levitin. It’s well worth reading.Satisficing is a portmanteau, that’s another fantastic word isn’t it? It is a word that blends the sounds and meanings of two other words. It’s also a large traveling bag, typically leather, opening into two equal parts.This is the first Readers Corner article I’ve ever written, I hope you’ve enjoyed reading it. There are so many great words, I’ll probably write more.</article></body>

The wonderful world of words

I discovered a new word yesterday and recalled another one during a conversation on Microsoft Teams today. I love discovering new words, they are part of my toolbox as a writer and they introduce me to new concepts or ways of seeing things. You don’t have to be a writer to appreciate that.

Somebody mentioned in a recent conversation that the more she reads the more she encounters words she does not understand. That’s part of the joy of reading in my opinion. It’s discovery. “I should look them up and then use them” she said. I agree.

There must be more people like me who love finding new words and concepts but don’t read as much as they’d like to. Solve a problem and you’ll make a fortune! Maybe not, but I can help people who don’t have as much time as they’d like for reading to discover interesting new words. I’ve decided to write about these two words I’m particularly enjoying right now.

The first is hypergraphia. It just sounds cool. It’s a pleasure to say. Hypergraphia is the urge to write or draw. It can be extreme enough to be a behavioural condition. People have been known to write all over the walls, and then on the toilet paper as well. I never had it that bad, but as a child I would get through countless sheets of paper, drawing, sketching, and doodling. I understand now that paper isn’t free, and neither is toilet paper, which I never took to writing on. Later in my life, I began filling notebooks and journals. I have them piled up on the bookshelf and wardrobes at my parents’ house. I always just put it down to creativity, but now I have another way to talk about it. It’s almost hypergraphia.

I don’t have hypergraphia. I just love writing. And I think I still love drawing as well.

The other new word is satisficing. This one really is a new word. It was coined by Herbert Simon, Nobel Prize winner and one of the founders of organization theory. Satisficing is a combination of the words satisfying and sufficing. It is what we are doing when we accept something that is good enough, but not necessarily the best. Satisficing is what we do when decisions really aren’t that important, like which loaf of bread to buy, because we do not have unlimited decision-making capacity. By satisficing on the little things, of which there are a very large number, we can conserve our energy for making decisions about the important things.

I read about Satisficing in the book The Organised Mind, by Daniel Levitin. It’s well worth reading.

Satisficing is a portmanteau, that’s another fantastic word isn’t it? It is a word that blends the sounds and meanings of two other words. It’s also a large traveling bag, typically leather, opening into two equal parts.

This is the first Readers Corner article I’ve ever written, I hope you’ve enjoyed reading it. There are so many great words, I’ll probably write more.