Thinking through your fingers

I’ve shared a number of times on here that I write in order to think. To quote E.M. Forster, he once said “ How can I tell what I think till I see what I say? “.

Or when Blake Stratton shared this:

Usually you think, “Oh, I know and therefore therefore I write,” it’s not always the case. A lot of times it’s, “I write and therefore I know.” We don’t just learn by consuming, we learn by then trying to articulate what we’ve consumed and put it into our own voice and into our own words.

This came up again because I recently heard Blair Enns share a similar thought on an episode of his podcast, when he said:

“I think through my fingers, I have to write to fully understand and arrive at some sort of cohesive point of view on it.”

Related is the fact that his new book came out (“ The Four Conversations “) and it’s fantastic. Blair is clearly someone who thinks through his fingers and has found fantastic success by doing it. I’ll keep using this platform to talk think through my fingers and hopefully get a little bit better every day.

Originally published at https://www.mickmel.com on February 11, 2025.