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[!summary]Writing ideas into words exposes gaps and makes them clearer. Rewriting and reading your own text forces precision and often creates new ideas. If you never write about something nontrivial, you likely don’t have fully formed ideas about it.
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Writing about something, even something you know well, usually shows you that you didn’t know it as well as you thought. Putting ideas into words is a severe test.
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Half the ideas that end up in an essay will be ones you thought of while you were writing it. Indeed, that’s why I write them.
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Can you ever know so much that you wouldn’t learn more from trying to explain what you know? I don’t think so. I’ve written about at least two subjects I know well — Lisp hacking and startups — and in both cases I learned a lot from writing about them. In both cases there were things I didn’t consciously realize till I had to explain them. And I don’t think my experience was anomalous. A great deal of knowledge is unconscious, and experts have if anything a higher proportion of unconscious knowledge than beginners.
Escribir ayuda a hacer explícitos los saberes implícitos. En el proceso, nos damos cuenta que muchas intuiciones están a niveles precarios de redescripción representacional, con lo que el ejercicio nos ayuda a definirlos de manera explícita. Esto involucra esfuerzo, requerido para consolidar aprendizajes. Todo el proceso de hacer explícitas las intuiciones me parece que es una forma particular de describir lo que ocurre en el proceso analítico. La diferencia es que las constraints no son puestas por el lector imaginado y los parámetros superyoicos, sino que por las preguntas de un segundo, que hace lo posible por descifrar la estructura de nuestros sesgos.
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Putting ideas into words doesn’t have to mean writing, of course. You can also do it the old way, by talking. But in my experience, writing is the stricter test. You have to commit to a single, optimal sequence of words.
La relación entre escritura y proceso analítico tiene similitudes y diferencias. Se parecen en la medida en que ambas promueven redescripciones representacionales, pero se distinguen en los mecanismos utilizados para lograrlo. Es posible que ambos acercamientos generen efectos distintos también. Sería interesante pensar en esto.
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I’ll often spend 2 weeks on an essay and reread drafts 50 times.
Aliciente a tomar más tiempo para refinar la escritura. Suelo ser muy atolondrado en esta para lograr publicar rápido.
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The reason I’ve spent so long establishing this rather obvious point is that it leads to another that many people will find shocking. If writing down your ideas always makes them more precise and more complete, then no one who hasn’t written about a topic has fully formed ideas about it. And someone who never writes has no fully formed ideas about anything nontrivial.
Yet another reason para aventurarse en el mundo de la escritura: para clarificar nuestro pensamiento y, en el proceso, afianzarlo.
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Ideas can feel complete. It’s only when you try to put them into words that you discover they’re not. So if you never subject your ideas to that test, you’ll not only never have fully formed ideas, but also never realize it.
Escribir te permite identificar lo que no sabes.