Recently I read a book called, “Old School” by Tobias Wolff. The book wasn’t my favorite I’ve ever read but definitely had some fine parts. Towards the end it had this quote that I really appreciated:<\/p>\n
“Teaching made him accountable for his thoughts, and as he became accountable for them he had more of them, and they became sharper and deeper.”<\/em><\/p>\n I believe this is true about writing. I notice that Grant, who teaches and writes all the time can express himself and his thoughts with perfect clarity and concision. I am constantly gathering, searching, seeking knowledge but I am never accountable for it and therefore I find difficulty in expressing what I learn or sharing it with others. The words don’t come, the thoughts fade away. However, I have also noticed that when I regularly write in a journal, or blog, my thoughts come more sharply and flow with greater ease. I think as I age I really, really need to get better at writing things down and exploring thoughts and information!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently I read a book called, “Old School” by Tobias Wolff. The book wasn’t my favorite I’ve ever read but definitely had some fine parts. Towards the end it had this quote that I really appreciated: “Teaching made him accountable for his thoughts, and as he became accountable for them he had more of them,…<\/p>\n Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-home-family","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingfullonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingfullonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingfullonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingfullonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingfullonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2629"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingfullonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2631,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingfullonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2629\/revisions\/2631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.livingfullonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingfullonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.livingfullonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}