Some subs here already know that I write letters to myself.
Sometimes in Uzbek, sometimes in English. I have shared few of their Uzbek version before.
It may sound somehow crazy because the audience of your writing is you, if you're not sharing it publicly.
Even when you share it in public, you're talking to yourself through the combination of squiggles.
Why would you write to yourself when you can speak?
I can't remember when I started writing, but first I did it for a sole purpose of recording my memories.
Then I found that writing helps to talk to my inner self, making a space for self-discovery or at least thinking.
When you speak, the number of words produced is around 180. When you just think, it is blazingly fast, at around 3000 or 4000 words, the science says.
But when you write, the word output is around 100, when you type, and 40-50 when you write by hand.
What's the matter with the words?
The less words, the more focus on each thought, the less distractions (fillers, etc).
Writing is slow thinking, but it is deep thinking. It is easier to analyze different thoughts and process them when writing rather than speaking or just thinking.
Writing also prevents your emotions from coloring your thoughts, which is an absolute necessity if you're going through an emotionally hard time.
Last year I attended a mentorship training of Azizbek aka Rahimov, and there too the importance of writing, specifically a reflection and mistakes made during the day, was highlighted and we were required to complete it everyday.
In the CELTA course too, after each teaching practice, we were supposed to write a reflection. One of our written assignments was also reflection-based writing.
This shows how important writing is.
Talking about writing letters to oneself, we are smarter than we know sometimes.
We mostly know the answers, but we just pretend that we don't or are unaware that we do.
Talking to self helps with that.
OK, let's set that knowledge thing aside. At least, it helps us to become more honest with ourselves.
For instance, how many lies are we telling to ourselves everyday? Why?
If a man has courage to dare to answer these questions in front of himself, living with self can become much easier and so can self-acceptance.
Most importantly, staying with yourself will definitely become more interesting. At least, that's one of the things I have found after writing to myself for a very long period of time.
Is there any structure to write to self? Nope. Go creative. Bring what you want to discuss with yourself to the table. And then just write. The page is yours.
One day your diary will become a book, later a good companion from the past in your elderly years.
@temursolief — #writing
Sometimes in Uzbek, sometimes in English. I have shared few of their Uzbek version before.
It may sound somehow crazy because the audience of your writing is you, if you're not sharing it publicly.
Even when you share it in public, you're talking to yourself through the combination of squiggles.
Why would you write to yourself when you can speak?
I can't remember when I started writing, but first I did it for a sole purpose of recording my memories.
Then I found that writing helps to talk to my inner self, making a space for self-discovery or at least thinking.
When you speak, the number of words produced is around 180. When you just think, it is blazingly fast, at around 3000 or 4000 words, the science says.
But when you write, the word output is around 100, when you type, and 40-50 when you write by hand.
What's the matter with the words?
The less words, the more focus on each thought, the less distractions (fillers, etc).
Writing is slow thinking, but it is deep thinking. It is easier to analyze different thoughts and process them when writing rather than speaking or just thinking.
Writing also prevents your emotions from coloring your thoughts, which is an absolute necessity if you're going through an emotionally hard time.
Last year I attended a mentorship training of Azizbek aka Rahimov, and there too the importance of writing, specifically a reflection and mistakes made during the day, was highlighted and we were required to complete it everyday.
In the CELTA course too, after each teaching practice, we were supposed to write a reflection. One of our written assignments was also reflection-based writing.
This shows how important writing is.
Talking about writing letters to oneself, we are smarter than we know sometimes.
We mostly know the answers, but we just pretend that we don't or are unaware that we do.
Talking to self helps with that.
OK, let's set that knowledge thing aside. At least, it helps us to become more honest with ourselves.
For instance, how many lies are we telling to ourselves everyday? Why?
If a man has courage to dare to answer these questions in front of himself, living with self can become much easier and so can self-acceptance.
Most importantly, staying with yourself will definitely become more interesting. At least, that's one of the things I have found after writing to myself for a very long period of time.
Is there any structure to write to self? Nope. Go creative. Bring what you want to discuss with yourself to the table. And then just write. The page is yours.
One day your diary will become a book, later a good companion from the past in your elderly years.
@temursolief — #writing