Writing

Writing allow us to stabilise our thought because it gives them shape and structure. Thoughts are ephemeral and change continuously, fluidly, while writing captures them in a sequence of words. Writing is like picking one word, one thought at a time among the many we might have in mind in that moment, and re-reading before continuing to write facilitates building coherence and depth.
Writing also acts as a container of thoughts, freeing working memory to enable new, deeper thought and further connections.
In a similar way to how photographs catch a moment, writing catches a thought.

While I’ve always enjoyed writing, I only started doing it consistently in the last year, and I’m finding that the practice has begun to change me. For instance, I use writing to process emotions in my personal life. It also helps me to be more productive at work as taking copious notes makes me remember details of complex projects. Furthermore, it improves my learning in my lifelong academic journey by putting together concepts and ideas from different sources and build original thinking upon them. For me, writing is therefore both therapeutic, instrumental but primarily a pleasure.