Writing is the wrestling match you have with yourself to find out if you think what you think you think.
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Oh, so true.
There’s a lot of scientific depth to this regarding the left and right hemispheres of the brain.
The left brain is logical, linear, sequential, and houses all language functions.
The right brain is intuitive and chaotic and is about pattern recognition. The right brain has no language functions.
This means that all written and spoken language must be passed through the filter of the left brain.
Often times those things we “think we think” are intuitions, hunches from the right brain, and we have to pass them through and struggle with them in the logical left brain.
And since the left brain perceives, thinks, and calculates differently, hence ensues the wrestling match.
As a full-time professional writer I deal with this daily.LikeLike
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Chris,
It is also a time when we think we know we know, and sometimes learn otherwise!
I remember trying to write a blog entry for my blog on my company’s employee website. Most of the time, it almost seems effortless, and usually quite fun. That day, it was like the worst kind of torture. The words didn’t work, the phrases wouldn’t gel and the whole concept kept meandering off in directions I never intended when I started. The theme, something I felt strongly in my heart, just wouldn’t come together at all! It was one of the few times in my life I couldn’t make the written word say what was in my heart and head, and I hated it.
I finally saved the unpublished mess to a Word file on my computer’s desktop, to go back and work on it later. It’s been weeks now since I did that. Other posts have come and gone with the same effortless ease, or close to it. And every time I see that one in my desktop icons, I inwardly cringe for the total failure it still represents, a failure of not knowing what I knew I knew, and still know I know I know.LikeLike
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What a simply fabulous point! In my practice with clients it is often very helpful as an exercise to just begin to put their thoughts down on paper but the next often humbling step is to commit to actually conveying those thoughts in a public forum/blog/article…A truly illuminating experience and so worth while.
-Deborah Connolly
Creative Leadership CoachLikeLike
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Oh, the thinks you can think!
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Masterfully said.
Richard
Professional WrestlerLikeLike
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Well Chris, you are definitely winning that wrestling match with all of your great writing.
Great to see you last night at the open. Don’t forget to look up Andy Garcia.LikeLike
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Your thoughts on writing and how the information fits into such clear cut areas like we have in the 8 F’s of LIFE are amazing. Hopefully Bozidar and I will be be able to contribute to some of TEAMS writing with his memoirs soon enough. Bozidar was born in Montenegro and lived under communism. He tells such great stories. I think that some day his life experiences living under Communism in former Yugoslavia will help others understand the importance of our freedom and how we should respect it.
To living intentionally for excellence,
Bozidar and Linda NikcevichLikeLike
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Yup. I have many times gone to put a thought on paper, and the words that end up on the page are nothing like the words that were in my head when I pulled out the pen. The mind is a strange thing, but then, sometimes, so are words.
-GWLikeLike
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