Writing Builds Resilience in Everyday Challenges by Changing Your Brain

Writing Builds Resilience in Everyday Challenges by Changing Your Brain(scienceclock.com)

48 points by PikelEmi 174 days ago | 5 comments

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underlipton 173 days ago |

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-serious 173 days ago |

Does writing LLM prompts count? :D

westcoast49 173 days 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.

MichaelNolan 173 days 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/