Cal Newport

So the read, think, write loop goes like this.

You read something that's hard.

in a book, in an article, right?

This is like you're consuming hard information to get smarter.

You then stop and you think about what you just read.

Like, what does this mean?

You move it around in your head, right?

Like, okay, what is this?

Remind me of what's going on here.

And then you write down your thoughts.

That thinking and writing part is what forces your brain to actually take the information out of much more of the like

cursory processing where you're like hearing the sounds in your head and have basic images and actually move the information into symbolic information storage in your brain.

That's where insight is gained.

So that thinking and writing is where it's gained.

Brahm is asking about like what is the difference between thinking and writing here?

It's a fuzzy line.

That when you're trying to write out your thoughts, a lot of thinking happens.

Like they're kind of interleaved a little bit.

But I think of those kind of together.

You step back, reflect, write.