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50 Reasons I Write

by Jared Cohen

March 18, 2021

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  1. I write to think more thoroughly and deeply.
  2. I write to recognize, understand, label, express, and regulate (RULER) my feelings.
  3. I write to learn about myself, others, and my pursuits.
  4. I write to organize, evolve, and refine my compelling points of views.
  5. I write to connect the dots between many sources of information and inspiration.
  6. I write to be able to see and make meaning in more creative, integrative, and empathetic ways.
  7. I write to train self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-reflection.
  8. I write to practice being “on the hook” and shipping my work.
  9. I write to preach what I practice.
  10. I write to uncover the treasures buried within me and others.
  11. I write to help facilitate the flow of my energy.
  12. I write to create congruence between what I experience internally and how I express that externally.
  13. I write to act with purpose on purpose.
  14. I write to make art by connecting and generously creating change.
  15. I write to question and challenge assumptions and world views.
  16. I write to offer different perspectives.
  17. I write to express gratitude.
  18. I write to surprise myself and others.
  19. I write to notice, discern, and re-imagine.
  20. I write to change mine and others’ minds.
  21. I write to remind, rehearse, and reinforce.
  22. I write to contribute to and advance genre.
  23. I write to be vulnerable.
  24. I write to lead, coach, and mentor.
  25. I write to reframe.
  26. I write to increase mine and others’ mental flexibility.
  27. I write to highlight nuance.
  28. I write to organize language that provides myself and others’ with a handle for better understanding, making meaning, and managing experiences.
  29. I write to create feelings of belonging and relief.
  30. I write to capture time.
  31. I write to put a mirror up to myself and others.
  32. I write to be in the arena.
  33. I write to face and dance with fear.
  34. I write to process.
  35. I write to unlearn.
  36. I write to relearn.
  37. I write to forget.
  38. I write to remember.
  39. I write to share.
  40. I write to say something worth saying.
  41. I write to develop my voice.
  42. I write to understand.
  43. I write to be understood.
  44. I write to communicate and clarify intent.
  45. I write to reveal and own my thoughts and feelings.
  46. I write to find out what, how, and why.
  47. I write to talk to different versions of myself–past, present, future.
  48. I write to iterate.
  49. I write to collaborate.
  50. I write to WRITE.

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Drawing from my education, experience, and devotion to guiding leaders (including myself) at different stages in their journey from individual contributor to leader, I help leaders like you to develop the trust and the tools to model and enable exceptional team performance.

Jared Cohen

Leadership Coach, M.A., M.B.A.

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