So I have finally decided that I'll write one page per day. What will I write? Who will read it? What do I want to fetch out of this? Why is this important for me? And blah blah blah.. Are these important questions for a dilettante like me. I don't think so. I think its important to put thoughts on paper, this process in itself is both the means and the ends.
So shall we begin? Hell yeah!
Okay, now all of a sudden I can picture and feel what all those writers meant when they said "I can't write" I think this is what is called "writers' block", but for regular folks like me (or may be like you) this is a serious philosophical question, how can we face the same sort of dilemma when we have never written anything.
I'm meaning to write for a long time. I have tried all sorts of psychological and motivational things from Lyft to Gamifying to 31 Day Journaling and other amazing tools out there. But every time after a small period of time, I failed. Which made me think? What is the real problem?
And I thought why not write about them first, as they say we should face our demons/fears.. so lets meet those guys head on. In my experience I find these issues to be mainly responsible:
1) Inertia of stagnant thoughts: I think the world, society, education institutions, peers, parents et al never provided us with an environment or platform where we could systematically let our thoughts flow. But on the other hand we were fed information/knowledge/wisdom/thoughts for years and years. And they stayed there in that dark pit somewhere in our brain. By the time we realize that having opinions/thoughts is important but the ability to narrate them, share them in the best possible manner is far more important, it gets too late, thoughts possess a huge inertia and its hard to move them out now. They have become lazy in lay man's lingo.
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So shall we begin? Hell yeah!
Okay, now all of a sudden I can picture and feel what all those writers meant when they said "I can't write" I think this is what is called "writers' block", but for regular folks like me (or may be like you) this is a serious philosophical question, how can we face the same sort of dilemma when we have never written anything.
I'm meaning to write for a long time. I have tried all sorts of psychological and motivational things from Lyft to Gamifying to 31 Day Journaling and other amazing tools out there. But every time after a small period of time, I failed. Which made me think? What is the real problem?
And I thought why not write about them first, as they say we should face our demons/fears.. so lets meet those guys head on. In my experience I find these issues to be mainly responsible:
1) Inertia of stagnant thoughts: I think the world, society, education institutions, peers, parents et al never provided us with an environment or platform where we could systematically let our thoughts flow. But on the other hand we were fed information/knowledge/wisdom/thoughts for years and years. And they stayed there in that dark pit somewhere in our brain. By the time we realize that having opinions/thoughts is important but the ability to narrate them, share them in the best possible manner is far more important, it gets too late, thoughts possess a huge inertia and its hard to move them out now. They have become lazy in lay man's lingo.
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