Day 96 - Taking my own advice https://golifelog.com/posts/taking-my-own-advice-1617693681003
I’d been slaving over a piece of content for Lifelog. I wanted to write the best damned article on the internet about how to develop a daily writing habit.
But the interesting part is writing advice for others also ended up being advice for myself. Taking my own advice, I started doing brain dumps of points I want to make in the post. I stopped editing in mid-flight and shifted it to be done last, since writing and editing are fundamentally different brain work. So it seems, even now after writing for years, I can still learn new tricks to get better. It made me realised that even though getting better at writing isn’t one of my main goals, doing some level of intentional practice is still a good thing.
Damn… Funny how I only came to this after more than two years of writing. And when writing out advice for others.
If we all took our own advice, the self-help industry would be out of business.
But the interesting part is writing advice for others also ended up being advice for myself. Taking my own advice, I started doing brain dumps of points I want to make in the post. I stopped editing in mid-flight and shifted it to be done last, since writing and editing are fundamentally different brain work. So it seems, even now after writing for years, I can still learn new tricks to get better. It made me realised that even though getting better at writing isn’t one of my main goals, doing some level of intentional practice is still a good thing.
Damn… Funny how I only came to this after more than two years of writing. And when writing out advice for others.
If we all took our own advice, the self-help industry would be out of business.