Keeping a blog is a helpful tool to have, as it has many benefits. One such benefit is that it provides practice in recording my thoughts on topics, such as book reviews or historical summarizations, which occupy the entirety of my blog. This practice helps train me to summarize my thoughts quickly and in an intelligible way (at least, hopefully this is intelligible). It can also improve the way that I think about the subjects I write about, since the writing down of a subject requires much more thinking and planning than simply feeling and thinking about a subject, and explaining it even more so.
It also provides a record of what I have done and learned, and how I have changed, hopefully for the better. By looking over this record, I can see where I’ve been and what I’ve done, and use that to, ideally, figure out where I need to go and what I need to learn. It also works as a a kind of résumé, letting people see what I’ve done and said without directly asking me.
By posting my thoughts I also gain experience with the internet, which should only set me in good stead. Worst case scenario, I just learn that I’m really not that great at writing and nobody reads anything of mine, at least I’ll continue to improve, and best case scenario I somehow become popular, or at least manage to use this site to my advantage. And then there’s the possibility that I manage to help someone by providing a decent review, which would more than make this worth it.
I recommend keeping a blog site yourself, for any of the reasons that I have mentioned on this post, or any other that I’m sure I’m missing, so as to better your life by a little, or possibly a lot.
Keeping a blog is a helpful tool to have, as it has many benefits. One such benefit is that it