P: Writing is a tool to explore your mind

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If reading is a way to explore someone else’s mind, writing is a tool to explore your own mind.

Writing forces you to think because to put an idea on paper you need to commit to one, optimal sequence of words. And this is hard. To achieve that you have to dive into the depths of your mind to find the most fitting expressions, facts, and concepts.

What’s more, writing not only aids in shaping, clarifying, and completing existing ideas, but it also allows you to discover new ones!

You see, when you’re in the process of looking for the most relevant expressions, facts, and concepts to describe your set ideas you often stumble upon other, related ideas.

In that regard, writing reminds an exploration process. Here, your mind is like a huge house with a myriad of hallways and doors that wait to be explored.

But usually, this place is only partly inhabited—you only live on just one floor, in a couple of rooms (represented by your daily thoughts). Sometimes, you visit the basement or the second floor (when read or hear something new). However, this huge house—your mind—consists of many unexplored floors.

Writing is the process of exploring this unknown territory. The metaphorical pen you use to write (now, we’re mostly using keyboards) is like a flashlight that helps you navigate in this dark, untried, but incredibly fascinating labyrinth of ideas.

Every word you put on paper is like a step in your huge house of ideas; every sentence you write down is like a traveled hallway; every novel insight that pops into your head while writing is like a newly discovered room; and every idea you describe completely and precisely is like a concquered floor.

The only thing that can restrict you in this endeavor is the limit you put on your innate curiosity. So, be bold.

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