{"id":8222,"date":"2024-12-17T04:04:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8222"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:55","slug":"thinking-youre-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=8222","title":{"rendered":"THINKING YOU&#8217;RE THINKING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve gotten a little slack lately &#8211; my &#8220;daily&#8221; writing habit is often reduced to 4 or 5 times a week.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s not that I have run out of topics.\u00a0I have unlimited things to write about.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But limited energy and time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three years in, I believe the habit is solid enough not that occasional lapses will not lead to outright disappearance. I find writing much too valuable to ever give it up completely.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is because I feel the constant need to straighten out my thinking, especially as a pastor. And that takes writing.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is my experience: &#8220;If you&#8217;re thinking without writing, you only think you&#8217;re thinking.&#8221; (Leslie Lamport)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Hat tip to Writes and Write-Nots at\u00a0https:\/\/paulgraham.com\/writes.html for the quote.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve gotten a little slack lately &#8211; my &#8220;daily&#8221; writing habit is often reduced to 4 or 5 times a week.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not that I have run out of topics.\u00a0I have unlimited things to write about. But limited energy and time.\u00a0 Three years in, I believe the habit is solid enough not that occasional lapses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,151,152],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habits","category-thinking","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8223,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8222\/revisions\/8223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}