How To Be A Better Writer in Record Time

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Are you a newbie writer struggling to weave your words everyday? Are you a pro looking to improve your craft? Then listen up.

Ever wonder why it’s so damn diffult to write up a good article even though you’ve listened to more writing courses than you care and you’ve read more books on writing than you can remember? What if I told you the problem doesn’t lie in the education you’re getting?

Heck, it’s not even your fault.

The problem is in how you learn to write. Or rather, how you’ve been taught to learn.

You see, writing is not that much different to sports. When you want to learn how to play a certain sport, can you learn it from a textbook? Heck no!

That’s because you when you play, you don’t let your conscious mind control your body. Every major players in sports goes into a trance when they are in the game. It’s what they like to call “second nature”.

And when they are in “the zone”, they let their instinct and reactions do their job. If they ever try to consciously take over, they immediately “lose their touch”.

I’m sure you’ve had similar experience.

Same principle goes to just about anything you can think of. If you want to get good at writing, you have to be in that zone too.

But you see, the problem is that when you educate yourself by listening to courses and reading books, you educate only your conscious mind. You’re only consciously aware of the principles of great writing. When it comes to really write, your mind goes blank.

It’s like math. You listen to your teacher’s 3 hour lecture and at the end of the class, you still don’t know how solve the problem.

How to really absorb all those writing education you’re getting

To really GET what your math teacher is talking about, you have to SOLVE math problems. Over and over and over again until it’s your second nature. Until just a glance is required for you to KNOW the answer.

When it comes to writing, the best way to absorb education is to WRITE.

Take a piece of your favorite author’s work and copy it. By hand, not type.  When you copy someone else’s work, you’re absorbing their hidden techniques that you don’t consciously detect.

That’s how Gary Halbert, John Carlton, Michael Masterson and any master copywriters came to perfecting their craft.

And it’s only now that science has a reason for it.

As it turns out, when masters are in “the zone”, their reptilian (or limbic) brain takes over. The limbic brain has no capacity for logic, reason or any sort of objectivity. It’s pure instinct and it allows you to ACT without consciously thinking.

But when you educate yourself by listening and reading, it’s your cerebral cortex that gets it. Cerebral cortex is the source of logical thinking.

And as it turns out, different parts of the brain don’t communicate well with each other…. unless your brain has tons of connections between its brain cells called dendrites.

Guess what creates more dendrites and neural pathways between different parts of your brain?

Repeated activities!

The more you practice a certain activity, the stonger that pathway becomes, the better you get at it. It really is THAT simple.

So don’t let negative people put you down by saying you don’t have talent for what you do. What a load of bull.

It’s practice that counts.