"Good thinking is about pushing past your current understanding and reaching the thought behind the thought. It often requires breaking old ideas. This is easier to do when the ideas are as rigid as they get on the page. [...]

"As I type, I’m often in a fluid mode—writing at the speed of thought. I feel confident about what I’m saying. But as soon as I stop, the thoughts solidify, rigid on the page, and, as I read what I’ve written, I see cracks spreading through my ideas. What seemed right in my head fell to pieces on the page."

"Seeing your ideas crumble can be a frustrating experience, but it is the point if you are writing to think. You want it to break. It is in the cracks the light shines in."

~ Henrik Karlsson
from "How To Think in Writing"

"Good thinking is about pushing past your current understanding and reaching the thought behind the thought. It often requires breaking old ideas. This is easier to do when the ideas are as rigid as they get on the page. [...]

"As I type, I’m often in a fluid mode—writing at the speed of thought. I feel confident about what I’m saying. But as soon as I stop, the thoughts solidify, rigid on the page, and, as I read what I’ve written, I see cracks spreading through my ideas. What seemed right in my head fell to pieces on the page."

"Seeing your ideas crumble can be a frustrating experience, but it is the point if you are writing to think. You want it to break. It is in the cracks the light shines in."

~ Henrik Karlsson
from "How To Think in Writing"

https://www.henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/writing-to-think

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"the thought behind the thought" is so great.

The illusive better, deeper whole...climbing down through the floorboards to where the gears shift and grind.  Love this Danica.

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ha! the illusive illusion of clarity until the deeper epiphany unfolds.

He's such a great wordsmith. I appreciate his emphasis on writing-as-thinking, too.

At first I thought you meant to write "elusive," rather than "illusive," but then I realized either one of those homophones could make sense in this context. Love it!