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A famous author once said, "I write so that I know what I think."

This is excellent advice.

Just like teaching something like a sport or a skill often makes you much better at it, writing similarly makes you go over and refine your knowledge and understanding. Most people think they have a lot better grip on things before they actually set out to write about them; the writing is a valuable process that exposes gaps in knowledge, contradictory ideas, and lack of clarity. It's a powerful way to increase and perfect your knowledge.

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Great post. Sigmund Freud once stated that when he first began writing extensively he felt as if he were being introduced to a completely different person. That experience will certainly make someone both better able to think and analyze their thought processes, while also making them more reflective and perhaps more in tune with themselves.