When I was younger I'd have said that how you write and what you say were as independent as shape and color. But that's not true.
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Are there styles that make you smarter, or more honest? Because if so you should consciously seek them out.
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In college, I had a prof tell me to write like an academic. Emulate the style of course material. Applying that elsewhere works too.
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I did that without anyone telling me to, and the results were not good.
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Simplified: everything has a language and voice. Academics, business, whatever. Learn to write in it.
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might help that I wasn't a CE major
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A wise friend once told me of the "method of the virtual guru" 1/
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If stuck on a problem, ask yourself "Who do I know who would have clever things to say about this?" 2/
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And then: "And what would they say about this?" 3/
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Surprisingly often, this gets me unstuck. I guess we have surprisingly powerful models of other people in our heads. 4/
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Crazy as it sounds, I often get results from asking what advice I'd give myself.
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interviews with Japanese housewives of Americans found they expressed different values depending on what language was spoken to them
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it starts even earlier than that: languages frame what you can think and say
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here's a really fundamental example of it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distancing_language …
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