The speaker writes to discover what they know, following Flannery O'Connor's idea. They describe how writing clarifies thoughts and share how author Alan Grigorman builds business books differently than they do, gathering ideas like Lego bricks to construct something larger.
I'm often asked how I can write as much as I do on LinkedIn and elsewhere, and now that I'm writing another book, and I always quote Flannery O'Connor who said, I write to discover what I know. I found that writing down your thoughts actually clarifies what you're thinking. It clarifies your perspectives and opinions and allows you to obviously communicate them to a bunch of folks on mediums like this in different ways. So as I sat down yesterday with a guy who has written 3 business books very successfully, Alan Grigorman, I asked him how he did that and he told me about his process and I realized that my process was completely different in that I see it as a bunch of Lego bricks that I have in front of me that I'm trying to connect and see if I can build Hogwarts Tower So that's how I collect my ideas and write how-to books.
