Write your own culture

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A while ago I read about the Richard Feynman learning technique.
Feynman was a Nobel-prize-winning physicist and a prolific, wonderful teacher. At the core of his technique is writing down your ideas to the point where you can explain them to other people.

If (or when!) we meet, it won’t take long until we get on to the topic of writing ideas and concepts down. In doing so, not only do you understand and structure your thinking and build confidence in yourself, but you unlock the opportunity for other people to learn from your thinking. In that wondrous moment, you have just created culture! And as we all know, culture eats process for lunch!

But, wait a minute. Writing is actually quite hard to do, especially if you want other people to read and understand what you are saying about complex ideas. What’s the hardest thing about writing? It isn’t having the idea or structuring your thoughts or even having good prose. The hardest thing about writing is getting started.

To that end, I wrote this short piece a little while ago. “Read, Curate, Write” is a guide/tool to help you overcome that barrier and get started. Steven King said, "If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot." The tricky bit is moving from reading to writing, and I hope this post will help you do that, and overcome that hardest of all problems - getting started.

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