When Writing Dies, So Will Our Abilities to Win an Argument

Most martial artists will tell you they are never looking for a fight. Similarly, I’m not sure anyone should be looking for an argument. But, the practice of organizing your thoughts to win one is one of life’s most important skills. 

Writing sentences and organizing them in a certain order and sometimes stringing enough of those sentences to form a paragraph or two is a skill that will soon die for most people. Hell, after schooling ends it’s mostly gone anyway, but soon our reliance on artificial intelligence will kill it altogether. 

I notice the ones who write the least tend to lean heaviest on AI to do it for them. 

This, of course, means those who need to write the most are least likely to get the practice, unfortunately. Surprisingly, it’s a practice that I think matters less in certain ways than you might think and more in other ways than you also might think. 

I actually think most people shouldn’t write so that their writing is good or even read by anyone. I think people should write as a practice of organizing their thoughts. Writing makes people better at their beliefs and communicating their beliefs.

And, what is more important than that?

Verbally discussing ideas is not the same type of practice because we don’t observe and go back and rearrange our thoughts like we do when writing. And, frankly, most people who talk a lot should probably know where the backspace button is but, that’s for another time. 

Write and keep writing if you can. It will help you everywhere you couldn’t imagine it could.