Name: Want to LEARN? You Must WRITE.
Uploaded: 2026-02-03T18:16:38.000Z
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This is part of a four part series I'm doing on communication, reading, writing, speaking and listening.

And this one is on writing, which is, funny enough, it's the least percentage that you do in communication.

Let's face facts, you don't walk around writing everything down, right?

I used to teach English class where I had to do a lot of writing.

And having to read what people would write was a horror show.

All right, let's go to the board so you won't have someone making comments about you like this, right?

So as I said, E, we're doing writing and we can see that it's only 10 to 15% of our communication.

However, it's a very versatile and important part and it shows, you might say, the evolution of people because, well, our ancestors, I mean, way back when they were in caves, they used to draw.

So something that's been with us forever, but we weren't born with it.

When we did it, we were able to communicate, to store information.

And that's why we have planes, trains, and television.

Because as you write it down, you can give it to someone.

you can still see in the world today, peoples who don't have a rich and deep language system that is written are living the same way we would have 10,000 years ago, because there's only so much information one person can pass to another.

The importance of writing cannot be overlooked.

You got to look at it because that's why you're watching me today.

Because somebody wrote something down about cameras, about television, electricity, and we can communicate this way.

And it's going to be even more important on your language journey to help you get faster to where you want to go.

They write because I got to write an email to my boss or I got to text somebody, and

They're not really into the writing process or what it can do for you, so they find it troublesome.

If you're like me, nobody likes writing essays.

Although writing the essay helps to get you to clarify your ideas and learn.

People like, oh, I got to write an essay.

I'd rather do a test where I don't have to write 10 or 15 pages or 100.

we'll come to it when I come to the board for something else.

But for most people, writing is a passive activity.

So you just kind of do it to get it done.

When you start understanding the importance of writing, you're going to know that when you write, you rewire your brain.

Because as you write, the important thing about writing, it's not writing, it's the rewriting.

It's the looking at something you put on paper, looking at it again, and then rewriting it.

Because each time you rewrite it, you restructure it, you change it.

After a while, the brain has to change, because the way you see it has changed.

We have a wonderful thing between our ears, and writing is a.

Let's just say, an advanced activity that humans do that have helped us.

I wanted to say enabled, helped, similar.

Because we can transfer information not just by speaking, which is good, but.

But we can hand something to someone who can give it to someone else, and

When you write, you go for deeper learning.

So not only does it change your brain in writing, when you're rewriting, as you understand more, you can get deeper into a subject to understand more of it.

For example, if I want to learn about electricity, right, I can read something just simple on it.

If I write what I learned from the book out, it gives me a deeper understanding, and

I can actually, while doing so, maybe have other ideas on how to use it.

Sometimes we read and we think I kind of understand it.

You're like, I don't understand this at all.

There's a bunch of words or jargon, specialized language that has no meaning for me.

So writing helps you get to deeper learning.

Because as you write it out, you get to see what's actually in your head, what you've actually taken in versus what you think you know.

We write down to remember, you know this.

You ask somebody their phone number, you write it down, and then your brain is being brilliant, goes.

But it aids in memory, because now we can write it down, put it somewhere, and

But also the writing process itself helps you remember.

Because as you write on it, think of it this way.

When you use one sense, as in just listening, that's one sense.

When you're writing, especially if someone's talking, you have to use more of your brain.

The more of your brain you use, the deeper it goes, because your brain goes, this must be important because I'm not just listening to this person.

At the same time, if I have to read it back to myself.

Now I'm using my eyes, so I'm not just listening, I'm looking, I'm writing.

That's why they encourage you to take notes when you go to class and whatnot.

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