Benefits of blogging
06 Oct 2016Communication is the first order of business
When blogging you get to practice getting ideas across in a clear and succinct manner. Good communication is essential not only for information workers, but any job really. Relationships, business dealings and many other aspects of life benefit greatly from sharpening your soft skills.
Free your thoughts
Blogging is a great place to put your thoughts so that you can re-visit them later. It’s there so you can’t forget them. If an idea is rolling around in your head and you don’t want to forget it, you can let it go; and move on to thinking new things!
Verbalize/Writing your ideas clarifies them
Many times when you actually tell someone about what your’e thinking, when you have to put it into words - you think about the idea in a slightly different way. When you explain a concept, your mind breaks the concept down into smaller easily relatable parts, helping you to better understand it yourself :)
Repeat yourself less
If you find yourself sharing the same concepts in conversations, or getting asked about the same thing - you can share a link to your blog!
Help others
Your blog can be a place for people to discover a helpful introduction into something new, or provoke thought to get the gears rolling about some idea(s).
Get feedback
Via comments (or other social media like tweets, etc..) you can gain perspectives, insights and learn how/what others think.