From learning to write the alphabet or numbers for the very first time to write the answer sheets in the examination hall, writing has been one of the most fundamental and essential elements of our careers. So, whether it is to write test papers, assignments, research papers, etc., to move ahead in your academic career, or to write stories, poetry, books, novels, etc., to make exponential progress in your professional career, writing is the soul of our life. It has played a very significant role in our career growth and in celebrating the essence of our life.
From writing a short post to celebrate our small-2 wins to writing in moments of grief to share our emotions and seek support from the people around us through social media, it is one of those important skills that has helped us grow through our careers meaningfully and memorably. In fact, when we talk about memories, many of us also love to write journals, diaries, etc., to collect all our day-to-day moments & happenings and revisit them at a later stage to feel those vibes of the moment and experience that nostalgia kind of feelings.
While in this age driven by the internet and digital technologies, everything is available with a click or touch of a screen; it is not easy to reflect upon our day-to-day experiences and collect wisdom through them. And in this process of getting everything already cooked, what we are missing is the aroma curated out of our own experiences with a feeling of “look what I have created!” On one side, while this feeling of being a creator gives us a sense of pride, at the same time, if expressed genuinely and authentically, crafting our own experiences can also help us in healing the most significant traumas of our lives as well.
Therefore, for this tech-enabled generation, it is essential to understand some of the great benefits of writing, which can help them boost their career growth and celebrate the essence of their lives.
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Benefits of Writing
Learning
When information is learned as though it needs to be taught or rewritten in your terms, it frequently sticks better. I didn’t completely understand the idea of having a “writer’s ear” until I started writing frequently.
To write interestingly, one must have a specific discipline that requires one to be open-minded and committed to seeking new ideas and insights. To learn something new that I might write about later, I have personally read books, listened to podcasts, and watched videos that I would have otherwise put off. Your information diet improves as you write.
Being a curator of excellent ideas alone invites more in-depth analysis, investigation, and “going down the rabbit hole” to discover original viewpoints on subjects that are important to you. Committing to producing a significant amount of work also enables you to approach big ideas more successfully.
Writing on the same subject for a while will enable you to expand on earlier ideas, using what you’ve already written to develop concepts on a larger scale. I’m sure that many authors have created paragraphs that serve as the beginning of essays, articles, and books.
Handling Hard Times
Researchers found that those engineers who continuously engaged in expressive writing could locate another employment more quickly in one study that tracked recently fired engineers. Adam Grant claims that: The engineers who expressed their ideas and emotions in writing about their job loss claimed to feel less resentment and animosity towards their former company. They said they also drank less. Less than 19% of the engineers in the control groups had found full-time employment eight months later, as opposed to more than 52% of the engineers in the expressive writing group.
Older studies also demonstrate that, up until roughly six months later, when the emotional advantages started to stick, writing about terrible situations made the individuals feel more miserable. Although I haven’t spoken to anyone about what I wrote, I was finally able to deal with it and move through the pain rather than trying to block it out, as one participant from the study stated. It now doesn’t hurt to consider it.
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Effective expressive writing depends on timing. Forcing the process can make things worse, but the advantages appear prominent if writing is a habitual activity.
Happiness
Expressive writing, or writing down your thoughts and feelings, is a significant research topic on writing and happiness. Regarding therapeutic efficacy, blogging “undoubtedly gives equal benefits” to solo expressive writing.
According to Adam Grant, expressive writing has also been connected to better mood, well-being, and lower levels of stress in people who do it frequently.
Gratefulness
According to the authors of one study, participants who once a week thought about and wrote down the good things in their lives were more upbeat and motivated about both their present circumstances and their futures.
The problem was that even though they wrote about the advantages daily, they could have been more substantial. This makes sense because doing any activity too frequently might make it seem forced and monotonous. The secret is to ponder and write about appreciation consistently but not too frequently.
Clarity of Thoughts
A lack of vocabulary makes it challenging to express emotions, share experiences, and interact with people. It is annoying to be able to develop ideas in your head, only to have them fumble out when you speak. Fortunately, writing regularly appears to provide some relief.
Making sure you’re genuinely saying anything is one of the most crucial advantages of clear writing, according to Richard Langham in his book Revising Prose. It’s expensive to mislead someone else with ambiguous prose, but what about the price of misleading yourself?
Writing also has the added benefit of improving the communication of very complex ideas, a benefit that has been demonstrated in both emotional intelligence and in hard sciences like mathematics. Writing makes you force yourself to do something; whereas prose does not tolerate fuzzy abstractions, the phrase “that sounded nice in my thoughts” is eliminated.
Mental Wellness
Have you ever had too many tabs open on the Internet? There are endless distractions here. Trying to juggle too many thoughts at once cognitively frequently leaves me feeling like my brain has too many tabs open.
Writing helps you organize your thoughts and get them out of your head, which saves bandwidth and keeps you from crashing your computer while browsing Wikipedia late at night. The stress of losing vital ideas to time or a cluttered mind is reduced when essential ideas are written down.
I’ve never felt compelled to start something because I had an idea that I had “archived” with notes or an outline. Now that I’ve started, I’m more likely to keep on with that idea.
Remember this Mitch Hedberg joke if all else fails: “I sit at my hotel at night, I think of something amusing, then I go get a pen, and I write it down. I have to persuade myself that what I thought of isn’t humorous if the pen is too far away.
Critical Thinking
Writing, especially by hand, is slower than typing; you have more time to think carefully about what you’re recording.
It aids in mind expansion and the creation of conceptual links. When you write by hand, it’s easier to see how disparate ideas relate to one another and to solve challenging situations. You can take your time and think things out.
Leadership
Even while the globe may currently be drowning in the personal brand flood, the “everyone can publish” era creates some genuinely intriguing options.
Amazingly, your comments might have such a large-scale impact. The first time someone thanks you for the work you’ve done and shares how it has aided or affected them via email can be a little surreal in terms of creativity.
The good response to this “leadership at scale” inspires gratitude and additional drive in the author.
Building Perspectives
Keeping a journal is one of the simplest examples of this, but it’s not the only method for putting things into perspective.
You can evaluate things and view them from a different perspective by writing fiction. You will be able to make comparisons between those hypothetical occasions and circumstances and those that have occurred in your life. This will enable you to view them more objectively.
A blog is a great way to accomplish this as well. As a result, you will be forced to consider your options carefully before writing anything down.
We hope that this article serves its purpose of spreading awareness about the benefits of writing for career growth and celebrating life.
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Mr. Raunak Gupta is a lifelong learner, keen Academician, enthusiastic communicator and MiDNA certified Genetic Brain Profiling Consultant. He finds true happiness in helping the individuals to identify their core strengths and realizing true potential for a blessed & cheerful journey of life.