
First Draft - Ben Winters
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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How Did Writingness Change You?
I think, honestly, on some level, it made me more forgiving of people who might believe things that to me are so preposterously untrue. We have to like, havampathy for the fact that with enough pressure and enough like signalling, any one us could believe things that we right now think are not true. But it also, i think, offers a way for us to expand our ampathy and a and reach out to those with whom we disagree withMore of a willingness to understand that truth istit can be messy. And we have to find ways to persuade without being dismissive, which is very hard. What's interesting though, and kind of funny and ironic about
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