Experiment: thinking on the move, voicing throughts
I've started experimenting with Dragon. As a working mother planning on studying I need tools that allow me to collect my thoughts on the move. But also, I'd like to explore new ways to capture my thoughts. It may be that typing is my best mode of thinking, but I like talking...and discussing - maybe my ideas will come out better if I use my voice more often. So I've started. Here's what I've found out so far:
1. I still feel slightly self-conscious when I speak my ideas out loud. Let's see if I can get over that
2. I seem to get a lot of content and ideas out very quickly - I wrote about half a word doc page in a couple of minutes. That felt good!
3. I had some blocks to my ideas - some fears and frustrations. Once I'd voiced them through speech (I'd avoided writing them, that felt too 'serious', it felt as if I was making them too important, or maybe it felt like someone would read them, I don't know but anyway I said them out loud to myself and it felt like they were less worrisome. And in some ways once they were out I saw they weren't that important and I could move on. I think that was really helpful.
Next time I blog on the subject it'll be using Dragon - then we can compare the quality! the range of ideas! The freedom of the ideas!