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The right tool for the job

As far as we can tell each of us on the planet is unique.
It is not surprising then to learn that if we are faced with a task or have to solve a problem we don’t all take the same approach. On the one hand this is useful because it means that as a group or society or company we often have many different approaches available to us. The flip side is that as individuals many of us will tend jump into our own natural way of taking action. This is often so natural that it doesn’t occur to us to question whether we have the appropriate method for what we are doing. Take for example the following case concerning the activity of running and the injuries it produces.

Writing As A Thinking Tool

        Date:        May 25, 2010 3:37 PM

        Topic:        Writing Process

We tend to think of writing as an end result, but the process is very helpful to discover inner thoughts or create new ideas.

Joan Didion on the subject:

“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.”Joan Didion quotes

E.M.Forerster on a similar theme:

“How can I know what I think till I see what I say?”

E. M. Forster quotes

Zen Writing

The process of writing can reveal ideas and thoughts in the unconscious mind that are not revealed by simply thinking about a problem and asking yourself for an answer. However one of the challenges in writing is knowing what to write. This technique avoids that problem.