Back to Basics

I personally believe that I'd lost the ability to concentrate long enough to efficient conduct critical thinking. I find it is getting more and more difficult every time I try to make an entry over here. While I feel that I want to write and make entries over here, they always end up being saved as drafts and never got continued. The few ones that made the entries this year were really draggy and way off the mark of what I intent to express, or at least I think I want to express.

I seem to lose my ability to express myself clearly. Seems like that happens in parallel when you are unable to focus long enough on a subject to clearly understand it. As a result, I would think I know a subject but yet, when questioned, I would not necessary be able to explain what I thought I knew.

I remember writing about quantity vs quality once. The concept of just practice makes perfect applying even to composition aspect of writing. I am keen to reapply that again. I am desperate to be able to express myself of late.

And while I have been reading a lot lately, I feel that the reading can be improve as well. I realized the reading done for the past few months had been of low quality as I took too long to finish up a book, with one spreading over almost a month! I gained nothing much from those reading, as I absorbed very little of the words, the styles, and could not recounts the tales again in my own words.

Just maybe I must just go back to the basics and do everything, one at a time. Set aside some time to only read and understand. Then think of a subject and write. No distractions and no ambitions. Turn it into a habit. Perhaps then, my ability to concentrate will improve. And with that, to carry out critical thinking better. I pray.