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保罗·格雷厄姆《《阅读的必要》》· The Need to Read · 领导 · 认知 · 学习

If you don't need to go too deeply into a problem, you can solve it without writing. If you're thinking about how two pieces of machinery should fit together, writing about it probably won't help much. And when a problem can be described formally, you can sometimes solve it in your head. But if you need to solve a complicated, ill-defined problem, it will almost always help to write about it. Which in turn means that someone who's not good at writing will almost always be at a disadvantage in solving such problems. You can't think well without writing well, and you can't write well without reading well. And I mean that last "well" in both senses. You have to be good at reading, and read good things.

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定位:Essay, additional excerpt 2 · 核对日期:2026-10-19 · 核验:短摘录

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如果问题不需要深入,不写作也能解决。比如思考两个机械部件如何配合,写下来可能没多大帮助。形式化的问题有时在脑子里就能解决。但如果是复杂、定义不清的问题,写下来几乎总是有帮助的。这意味着不擅长写作的人在解决这类问题时处于劣势。写不好就思考不好,写得好需要读得好,而“读得好”既指擅长阅读,也指读好东西。

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保罗·格雷厄姆在《阅读的必要性》中阐述写作与思考的关系。

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你遇到复杂问题时,会先写下来理清思路吗?

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