Can you imagine Kaiser building the Great
Coulee Dam without writing down each step to free his mind for the next step?
And Einstein in figures, Dr Bush in his atomic research, all great writers:
Churchill. Brisbane, Kipling, etc?
Figures are exact things, clear, always the
same. Life problems are complex, vague, changing . If we can’t even solve
problems in figures which are clear and exact, how can we expect to solve life
problems, which are not clear and exact, without pencil and paper? We can’t.
It ‘s difficult for most people to believe
that a certain exact method of handling such commonplace item as thoughts will
produce almost magical results; whereas a slightly different method of handling the very same thoughts
will produce ordinary results or no results at all.
Substitute the process of writing for the
process of mere thinking and you’ll surprise even yourself. You can multiply
your power without a minute’s preparation. Try it once right where you are.
Tear off a sheet of wrapping paper and write. Don’t worry about the mood you
are in.
Writing is the best mood creator ever discovered.
In three minutes you can prove that deep
down within the hidden recesses of your subconscious mind lies a vast
storehouse of power, energy, ideas waiting for your conscious mind to turn on
the switch and start the flow of ideas by writing. It might lift you like a
switch to undreamed of heights. If you only turn on the switch by writing. But
don’t think mere silent thinking will act as the switch. It won’t. In an
electric switch the two wires must touch, make contact. So must pencil and
paper make contact, touch to turn on ideas.
The mechanical aid for creating an endless
flow of useful is writing. If you
have ordinary ability and want to find yourself turn that ordinary ability into extraordinary achievement your
surest and shortest path to your goal is to write.
After you wrote your first word or idea or
sentence, did that reduce your allotted total of possible ideas? No. It
increased it. Why? New ideas are formed by comparing and combining old ideas
and parts of old ideas in new combinations or arrangements. The more you write
the more new ideas you’ll create to form more building blocks for more new
ideas. Don’t stop writing when you read your written words and find them dull
even stupid.
You first attempts at walking and talking
and riding a bike were just as crude. Where would you be if you had quit
because your first efforts brings no rewards. Most successful people succeed
because they do things failures don’t like to do, or lack the will power to do.
Doing what you know you ought to do when
you don’t feel like it develops will power, character, and all other success
traits.
Don’t wait for an inspiration or spirit to
move you. Move the spirit. Waiting for the right mood to write licks more
people than lack of talent. Write and
the mood will come. Burn this into your memory so you’ll never forget it: Inspiration sometimes leads to writing, but
ten times more often writing leads to inspiration. Edison said: Genius is
one percent inspiration and 99% perspiration.
