[July 3, 2026] After entering college for the first time, I struggled greatly with understanding my professors and the purpose of my daily assignments. I admit it. I was lost, and the struggle was most in my history and social science courses. Math, engineering, chemistry, and physics were easier for me. At the time, my discovery of my best way to learn to “think” was a godsend.
It would take decades to get to a place where I was comfortable enough to think, to truly think, and be confident that my thinking was on the right track. How did I do it?
There was one overriding method I used, with it being the easiest and the one most recommended by those who teach learning. Today, there is a movement within the formal education system to disavow this technique, or at least to downplay its significance. Some teachers outright degenerate it.
The method is to write. Simple? Conceptually, it is simple but in practice writing is hard and very demanding, but it works. Teaching people to write is difficult because it is unbelievably time intensive. Put pencil to paper, not on a computer keyboard. I know, I broke many pencils through frustration; I just didn’t believe I could succeed at thinking properly. And, it is exceptionally hard on a teacher, who works with you to write.
There are few substitutions to thinking through writing. I personally cannot think of any. Interestingly, while I was in school, the only person who ever told me that it was important to write was my Senior High English teacher. He was great; Mr. Chaffee. It was all about literature and writing and reading it, often Old English. Why don’t college professors ever tell us the importance of writing? Maybe they think we already know the answer.
Why do you need to learn to write? For good grades? No. You need to learn to write because you need to learn to think. Thinking makes you act effectively in the world. Thinking makes you win the battles you undertake and those could be battles for good things. Like Dr. Jordan Peterson says, “If you can think, and speak, and write; you are absolutely deadly!”
Nothing can get in your way, if you learn to think. So, that’s why you learn to write. It’s the most powerful weapon you can possibly provide someone with. Those I’ve known who were exceptionally successful, are highly proficient at thinking and can express themselves by writing. You certainly don’t want to have an argument with them.
Be capable of formulating your arguments coherently, and be able to make an organized presentation, to speak plainly to people, lay out a proposal, then you shall receive great opportunities; in greater proportion than you can imagine.
The best way to learn to think, is to learn to write.
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Imagine not having an origianl thoought but caught up in your own world of hedonism.
Imagine that you can think and cannot do so. What a narrow world one would live in. I find that many who “graduate” from HS, have yet to learn to read, at least proficiently. Sad but true. They believe they can, but cannot. For many it is the ghetto culture, for others it is the belief that the ‘government’ will support their crass, ego-centric lifestyle and that they deserve it. Well, there are perhaps suckers like me who support them through taxes, and that is why I am in touch with my legislatures to stop giving away my money to the lazy (who never picked up the skill to write) and cannot think for themselves.
Indeed, Lazy Susan, all I can say is WOW, and I’m not going to expend any of my energy or money to help them either because they will call you racists and try to beat you up for any attempt to help them, other than giving them money and letting them steal.