Communication

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you think about writing, which is actually don't think about writing. Think about taking an idea from your head, clarifying it, putting it onto the page, and get the idea from your head into the other person's brain. Yeah. You know, it's funny, I was reflecting on this quote actually recently and with with with my son, not with him, but about him. He's nine and he likes to make stuff. Well, at least I would describe him as someone who likes to make stuff. So he'll have some cardboard and a a copper pipe and some glue a glue gun and some tape and some stuff. And he'll have this thing he wants to make. Like he wanted to make recently like a ring holder for my wife to put her rings on. And we weren't going to buy him one of those things and he didn't have any money. So he's like, I'm going to make one of these things. And he makes it and I would describe him as a maker, but I was thinking about like what he really wants in the end is the thing. The

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making is just sort of the the step to get the thing. He just want he wants the thing in the end. He doesn't I don't know if he likes the making process so much. That's how I kind of think about writing. I do like writing, but I like the end product so much that the process is not really that exciting to me Which is why I'm kind of a fast writer. I don't spend a lot of time on my pieces. I kind of want to get to something good and if I'm not there quick, I throw it away Yep. and start Because I don't I don't want to get I don't want to struggle through the thing. Uh I want to just communicate the thing in the end. And if there's too much work to communicate, I'll stop and start over. Well, one thing that stood out is you have this YouTube video where you walk through your process of writing a piece Yeah. for Inc. Magazine. And what really stuck out

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that doesn't happen to me is sometimes I write and I get a little bit contrived and a little bit like, okay, now I'm writing, I really need to focus. And I just watched your temperament through the video and it never changed. And there was a real sense of calmness that you maintained when things weren't working well. Yeah. Try to. Like what's the point of struggling? There's some point in struggling in other things. I think like certain things are worth struggling through. For me, writing is not worth struggling through. It's worth finding a flow because then you can ride that. So I've found at least for me, when I struggle with writing, it's a signal to stop writing. Not to keep pushing through the writing, but to stop writing, do something else, and come back. And oftentimes don't come back to what I wrote, but come back to a blank page