Writing Builds Resilience in Everyday Challenges by Changing Your Brain (opens in new tab)

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48 pointsPikelEmi3mo ago5 comments

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Non-syndicated source: https://theconversation.com/writing-builds-resilience-by-cha...

I wonder how much coming to a verbal conclusion is important. Many times, writing won't "fix" things because I come out of it unable to put a bow on the thought. It's yet another thing I couldn't finish. Am I more resilient just for starting? Maybe.

r-u-serious3mo ago

Does writing LLM prompts count? :D

westcoast493mo ago

I’m sure it does. If you ask a question, it forces you to think the problem through, which has a similar effect as the kind of therapeutic writing that is mentioned in this article.

MichaelNolan3mo ago

A well thought out question definitely counts. (Though the majority of my questions to chatGPT certainly are below that threshold)

I’m reminded of this article about writing good Anki cards. The act of writing a good question is at least as important, if not more so, than the spaced repetition part.

https://andymatuschak.org/prompts/

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