Blogging Affects Your Thought Processes
By admin on Aug 21, 2008 in Blogging Ideas
Its guaranteed that whatever you do for a living will influence how you think. Everything that is picked up by the senses effects how we think and act and becomes part of who we are. Spending large amounts of time on the Web reading and writing is bound to have an impact.
These are 3 ways I have found blogging to effect my thinking, in a positive way:
Awareness (and criticizing) Of Advertising
Being an active part of the Internet advertising industry makes TV ads look like a toddlers attempt at reaching the target market, which results in them being muted and criticized. I find criticizing new Websites has also become a habit, looking how they are monetized and seeing what they could improve is more of a compulsion, which (as you can imagine) is a time waster!
Printed Books Are Different For Bloggers
Blog posts have been honed and skillfully evolved over the last few years to the point that they are extremely readable, scan-able and contain just the right about of “mental taxation”. A novel, while being enjoyable in a different way now seems like more of a mission.
With a novel it’s important to read every word so you can create the world the writer is describing in your head. Blogging is the exact opposite. It involves lots of reading and scanning to get out the vital information needed to proceed. Doing that everyday trains the mind to keep doing it, making researching fun and easy, and reading novels more off a challenge.
Blogging Forces You To Have An Opinion
Blogging isn’t a spectator sport, you have to play (I.e. write blog posts). It’s easy to go though phases of life where you don’t have any opinions about anything, because you just don’t care. This is because with many people’s lifestyles they aren’t absorbing any new information and as a result are bored, with everything. Blogging forces you to read and write, which in effect is to absorb information and display an opinion about it. Having opinions makes you more interesting socially and less of a blank, boring slate which is definitely a good thing.
Have you found blogging to have effected the way you think?
I think - it makes me think more! When I first started blogging I was writing a lot of what I thought people would like to read, but I didn’t want to do and be the blogger that was just writing about what everyone else was.
Now, I have slowed down, and tend to write - about me! lol.
I don’t care if others like me, cause I am not keeping up with everyone else.
I love to write - so I do.
That sounds like a very good reason to blog
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I couldn’t agree more on the last piece of thought where we are inclined to read, write and provide opinion. Being passive is certainly not an option in the world of blogging.
Great article and very insightful.
Yan
Interesting post, great read of the day I might say. Keep up the good work!
-Mike