One Apple A Day #943 - Hijacked by my strengths
I'm curious. It is one of strength and one of my weakness too.
In particular, when it comes to writing.
Curiosity helps me find something to write almost every morning without repeating myself too often.
But it also gets in the way of my writing practice, like this morning.
While I was scanning my memories for something to write about, I remember a post I saw a few days ago on Facebook. I don't remember who posted it and what were the exact words, but it was something like "science is not the truth; it is the quest for truth".
I felt it was a perfect starting point, particularly now that science and scientists are all over the media due to their role in this pandemic.
However, before setting the timer and writing the first word, I thought it was a good idea to check if those words were from someone worth quoting. So, as you would do, I did a quick search on Google.
I haven't found that quote, but in a comment to an article, I found someone saying that if "science is the search for truth", then we should know "what truth is" because if we do not know the definition of truth, then we cannot search for it.
So, that sparked another question: "what is truth?"
While I was browsing through the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, reading about all the theories on the subject, I realised that I had already spent most of the time I was supposed to use for my morning writing practice.
I do it often. It happens anytime I don't have a clear idea or plan. I get lost in the research. As Steven Pressfield wrote in his book Do the Work, "research can become Resistance. We want to work, not prepare to work."
Two reminders for myself:
always chose a subject I can write straight away
our strengths can also be our weaknesses