How to Use Writing to Sharpen Your Thinking | Tim Ferriss
Tim Ferriss
6 min, 9 sec
The speaker emphasizes the importance of writing in improving thinking, offering practical advice and methods for practicing writing.
Summary
- The speaker credits their success to learning and practicing writing.
- Writing helps to freeze thinking on paper, allowing one to sharpen and clarify their thoughts.
- Stream-of-consciousness writing, like morning pages, can help ease into the writing practice.
- Lawyers or people with legal training are suggested as excellent proofreaders for writing.
- Revision is key to writing, and it is recommended to have different rounds of edits focusing on self, fans, and critics.
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
The speaker describes the morning pages technique and advocates writing anything to start the process.
- Morning pages involve writing stream-of-consciousness for a few pages to begin the day.
- This method is endorsed by successful individuals like Brian Koppelman.
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
The speaker offers advice on finding proofreaders and the value of legal professionals in this role.
- Proofreaders are essential, and if professional writers are unavailable, legal professionals are a great alternative.
- Lawyers and paralegals are trained to scrutinize language carefully.
Chapter 6
The speaker discusses strategies for revising writing and setting manageable goals.
- Writing is rewriting, and the speaker's approach is to produce two crappy pages per day.
- Revisions should be approached systematically, with different rounds focusing on different audiences.
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
The speaker gives advice on how to guide proofreaders and the questions to ask them.
- Proofreaders should highlight any confusing parts and indicate where their mind wanders.
- The '10% rule' asks proofreaders to indicate what to definitely keep and what could be cut.
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