Converging Expression - thought, speech and the word writ

Speech and the word written, are potential expressions of a thought. Each one of us enjoys a different mix of how we best convey ourself.

Ever since I began blogging when I was 19, I’ve been prioritising descriptiveness over precision. I feel I’ve entered a mental state where I value the distilled value of the transmission more than the exhaustiveness of the message.

I also notice a rift between the way I speak and the way I write. Not to say that any one of them is superior than the other but I could use an exercise in convergence - projecting them both onto a common ground.

I hypothesize that the act of enforcing a common implicit representation for my speech and my writing will better enrich the way I think : for I anticipate the waves of my mind when crafting a sentence, and practice intuitively surfing them when navigating a conversation a certain way.

This in turn should help me be a better thinker, writer and conversationalist.

On to the pragmatics of accelerating this intent into consequences, I’ll be writing more often than usual and would keep it slightly aloof than what I’m reading currently. Instead, I’ll focus on ideas that I’ve previously encountered in fragments and try sensibly collating them.

Self criticism is another aspect that I’ll be translucent about to really document my progress with the same. For starters I’ve a tendency to get a little too abstract, a little to quickly. I’ve already deviated quite a bit from what I initially set out to convey in this micro-essay (this does show a potential market for version controlled essays). That either highlights the way writing refines your thought, or.., how raw one’s thought is that it requires an hour of active refinement to really understand what one thinks.

We shall soon find out, over the following season of abstract musings, how well I stand true to my promise of iterative convergence - over a series of relevant blogs (here) and unscripted monologues (youtube). If you’d like to know what goes on under the hood with a higher frequency of updates, checkout the ideation buffer.