5 Ways In Which Writing Can Help You
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Often, we tend to think, that people who have the most to benefit from writing are writers, managers, businessmen, journalists, or keynote speakers and this cannot be further from the truth. As a matter of fact, anyone can benefit from developing and honing our writing skills, even if it’s just the simple practice of keeping a journal.

Now, let’s get you motivated to write by giving you five ways in which writing can help you in life.

1. Keep track of things.

Productive people take better notes. If somebody is dropping knowledge on you, write it down. It allows one to commit one’s attention to the next insight–rather than trying to remember the last one. This way, one’s mind learns to adapt to the current situation and becomes ready for the next move without pondering upon the past situation.

2. Makes you more efficient.

It is a good rule of thumb to always write down ideas that pop up suddenly because we will be less likely to forget about them later. We can try and keep them inside our heads but, seeing as we live in a digital age, we process an insane amount of information. We are bound to forget most of them which include some great and precious ideas.

However, when we write them down, we will not only save them from being forgotten, but it will be easier for us to develop them and come up with something new and better later.

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3. Makes you a better communicator

When we are writing something down, we become more careful in choosing the right words. This means our writing will be more eloquent, concise, and elegant than our actual speech. When we start writing, we realize and reflect on how sentences are more than mere collection of words and how using them correctly can benefit us in our personal and professional life and make us better communicators. We also start including the expanded vocabulary learned from our writing in our speech, which leave a better impression of us on the person we are communicating with. These things also help in perfecting our PR skills. Hence, our personal and professional lives start to benefit from writing too.

4. Writing Improves memory and Retention.

Author David Allen says that the mind is for processing, not for storage. Storage of information, after all, can be outsourced in any number of ways, including writing down your to-do list on a pad of paper. You have to consistently work out your brain to strengthen it. For me, writing down my ideas help me retain information, and it’s one of the best mental workouts to stimulate the mind. Writing activates several different cognitive processes and unleashes our creativity.

Writing by hand is also shown to have improved memory and retention. The act of putting pen to paper activates areas of the brain that helps a person increase his/her comprehension. It also involves more senses and motor neurons than in the act of typing on a keyboard.

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5.writing as a means of earning

writing daily and developing writing skills can help you make a career out of it. Nothing is better than earning from something as simple as writing. A lot of students and even professionals write for some extra income or pocket money. However, it’s not such a bad idea to become a full-time writer. You can choose to be a freelance writer, Report Writer, Copy Writer, Content Writer, editor, novelist and so much more.

As you can see, there are plenty of ways in which you can benefit from writing regularly. Even if you are not a professional writer, writing is therapeutic and will lead you to become a more accomplished, eloquent, and satisfied person in life.