It's communication! And the first step in communication is communicating with ourselves. Step 1: In your head Step 2: Aloud (to yourself or others) Step 3: Wri

It's communication! And the first step in communication is communicating with ourselves. Step 1: In your head Step 2: Aloud (to yourself or others) Step 3: Written Ever notice how that thought you have in your head that makes sense suddenly is incomplete/non-sense/wrong when you try to verbalize it? Our minds are great at tricking themselves into believing they understand things. Writing is the next level. Take something you talk about and try to coherently communicate it on paper. More incompleteness/non-sense/wrongness may be revealed. For something you are an old hand at, you may not notice much difference between what's in your head, what you can verbalize and/or write. But take something nascent and the contrast will be sharp. Verbalizing and writing are two tools we have for communicating first with ourselves and then with others.