9: Writing > Thinking

writing is thinking and more...

This week’s 

❓Wonder

• Does writing = thinking?

🌲 Speculation

• Writing > Thinking

📱Application

• Start writing immediately, consistently, and a lot in public. Here is why I did.

🌹Thorns

I don’t want to waste my time on something if I’m not going to get something out of it…

• My daughter will be able to quote Pirates of the Caribbean here and tell you that not all treasure is gold. Value is not evident - it is discovered.

I have a reputation to maintain - I just can’t put my name on something that is crap...

• Since the late 1800s we have known that people cannot remember or retain anything. With the invention of social media, people are now a lot more interested in themselves, not you. Tell me you don’t like those odds!

You are clueless about how crazy my life is. I simply don’t have time for this…

• The next time you decide to decompress by scrolling through social media, instead consider writing down what happened to you that day. This is what Matthew Dicks coins Homework For Life and it is freaking phenomenal.

Bare Bone Recipe

This week I think about versatile roti…

Heartworthy

“When I brought up Osler’s Aequanimitas about doctors keeping an emotional distance from patients, he gave a snort…what did Osler know anyway? He was a young pup pathologist from the Canadian prairies. He learned his bedside manner on cadavers.” - Danielle Ofri, What Doctors Feel

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To your health - Soma

Thank you to Chris Harvey, Chris Angelis, & Joel Christiansen for helping me deliver this week’s issue.